Home Office minister Karen Bradley has been named as the new culture secretary in Theresa May’s first cabinet, succeeding John Whittingdale. The website They Work For You reported that Bradley voted for equal gay rights and same sex marriage, and for a wholly elected House of Lords. A crime thriller fan, she has read “read every Morse, Dalziel and Pascoe, Frost and Rebus that’s been printed”, she once said. She is also a big crime thriller fan and reads Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol every year before Christmas. Bradley, 46, voted to remain in the European Union, telling her constituents in an open letter that the “positive, patriotic [and] passionate response” was to vote to stay within the EU.

Source: The Guardian July 14, 2016 14:56 UTC