Margot James

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Margot James is a British businesswoman and politician. She is Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party with responsibility for Women and a local councillor in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. She is also the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for the highly marginal seat of Stourbridge at the next general election.

James attended the London School of Economics. She is the founder of the Shire Health Group.

At the May 2005 general election, she was the Conservative candidate for the Holborn and St. Pancras constituency, coming third behind Labour's Frank Dobson and the Liberal Democrat's Jill Fraser.

In May 2006, James was elected a local councillor for the Brompton ward of Kensington & Chelsea, becoming one of the Conservative Party's few 'out' lesbian office holders.

She was placed on the 'A-List' of Conservative Party candidates ahead of the next general election [1] and was selected as the candidate for the Labour held constituency of Stourbridge in December 2006. Stourbridge is a key marginal and one of the Conservative party's target seats.

James is patron of the University College London Union Conservative Society.