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Juliet Freya Elizabeth Manning is a Welsh Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Clwyd West since 2005.

Born on 8th December 1965, Juliet’s parents were General Practitioners and partners at a doctor’s surgery in Denbighshire. They were English, but had relocated to Wales in the years prior to Juliet’s birth. Juliet attended a Welsh-language primary school, ensuring her fluency in the tongue, and went on to attend a grammar school in Eirias.

Manning attended Prifysgol Aberystwyth where she read Economics, and upon graduating took up a graduate role with Banc Cymru. She was Director of Corporate Services by the time of the bank’s closure in 2002, and went on to take up a senior position with Royal Mail Group Plc.

Manning was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Royal Mail in 2010, in which capacity she advised the government regarding compliance with EU directive 2008/6/EC, which required fully open competition in the postal sector by 2012. The then Business Secretary, Vince Cable, planned to comply with the regulation by privatising the organisation; Manning was instrumental in securing agreement that 10% of shares would be held by Royal Mail staff, with the remaining 90% to be privatised. Manning remained in post until 6 February 2014, by which time the Royal Mail had been floated on the London Stock Exchange. Manning’s resignation as Chief Executive came hours after CWU members voted to agree a settlement with the company to avoid strike action, which included a 9.06% pay rise over three years.

Manning’s departure from the company allowed her to stand for election to Parliament in the 2015 general election; she was selected to contest the seat of Clwyd West, which she won easily. In 2016, she was appointed by Theresa May to be a junior minister in the Wales Office, and in 2018 she moved to the Cabinet Office where she took on shared responsibility for managing the UK Government’s relationship with the devolved administrations in respect of Brexit.

In 2019, Manning became Chairperson of the Women 2 Win organisation, which aims to support prospective female candidates in UK elections.

Manning voted and campaigned for Britain to remain in the European Union.

Manning is married with no children; she suffered an ectopic pregnancy in 1989 and was informed that she would likely never be able to give birth. Her husband, Damien, works for HSBC. The couple own Hensol Castle in Wales. Manning enjoys tennis and netball and lives an active life.
Rt Hon. Ms Juliet Manning MP
Member of Parliament for Clwyd West

Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Lord President of the Council
Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs
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Juliet Freya Elizabeth Manning is a Welsh Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Clwyd West since 2005.

Born on 8th December 1965, Juliet’s parents were General Practitioners and partners at a doctor’s surgery in Denbighshire. They were English, but had relocated to Wales in the years prior to Juliet’s birth. Juliet attended a Welsh-language primary school, ensuring her fluency in the tongue, and went on to attend a grammar school in Eirias.

Manning attended Prifysgol Aberystwyth where she read Economics, and upon graduating took up a graduate role with Banc Cymru. She was Director of Corporate Services by the time of the bank’s closure in 2002, and went on to take up a senior position with Royal Mail Group Plc.

Manning was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Royal Mail in 2010, in which capacity she advised the government regarding compliance with EU directive 2008/6/EC, which required fully open competition in the postal sector by 2012. The then Business Secretary, Vince Cable, planned to comply with the regulation by privatising the organisation; Manning was instrumental in securing agreement that 10% of shares would be held by Royal Mail staff, with the remaining 90% to be privatised. Manning remained in post until 6 February 2014, by which time the Royal Mail had been floated on the London Stock Exchange. Manning’s resignation as Chief Executive came hours after CWU members voted to agree a settlement with the company to avoid strike action, which included a 9.06% pay rise over three years.

Manning’s departure from the company allowed her to stand for election to Parliament in the 2015 general election; she was selected to contest the seat of Clwyd West, which she won easily. In 2016, she was appointed by Theresa May to be a junior minister in the Wales Office, and in 2018 she moved to the Cabinet Office where she took on shared responsibility for managing the UK Government’s relationship with the devolved administrations in respect of Brexit.

In 2019, Manning became Chairperson of the Women 2 Win organisation, which aims to support prospective female candidates in UK elections. In the same year, she was appointed by incoming Prime Minister Arthur Stanley to serve as Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport. During her brief tenure, she pioneered plans for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to make a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup.

Later in 2019, William Croft appointed Manning to the role of Housing Secretary. In the role, Manning proposed developing up to ten new garden cities on greenbelt land in a controversial plan which was eventually watered-down to an initial package of three garden cities each playing host to 50,000 residents. She also proposed funding for the “maximal use” of brownfield land, leading to hundreds of thousands of housing projects across the country.

Croft’s resignation saw Manning vocally support James McCrimmon for the leadership of the Conservative Party; his defeat to Grant Kingston led to speculation that Manning would be removed from the frontbench, but in a surprise move the incoming Prime Minister combined her existing responsibility for housing with power over education and health services in England, making Manning the inaugural Secretary of State at the newly formed Department for Public Services and Social Affairs. She became quickly seen as one of the key players in government, alongside the Prime Minister and the then Deputy Prime Minister Alec Dundas. In the wake of the 2019 sexism scandal within the Conservative Party and former Defence Secretary Patricia Carmichael’s defection to the Liberal Democrats, Manning sparred with Carmichael on Twitter, claiming that she had seen “no evidence” of widespread sexism within the government.

The resignation of Alec Dundas in early 2020 led to Manning’s promotion with two new positions: Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs. Manning was closely involved in the launch of the “Making Education Work” white paper, which proposed the widespread return of grammar schools to the English education system, and was credited in some quarters with persuading the Chancellor Michael Smythe to deliver £20 billion in additional funding for education. She confirmed the construction of two new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, and took charge of the government’s Brexit negotiations. After initially requesting a two-year extension of the Brexit transition period, Manning proposed a final deal which would see the United Kingdom exit the European Union but remain part of the European Single Market, by joining the European Free Trade Association. The proposed deal was highly controversial and is widely seen as the proximate trigger of a realignment in British politics between the Conservative and Labour parties, with the former promoting immigration and other socially liberal causes whilst the latter opposed continued single market membership and appeared to move to the right on issues such as law and order.

After the deal was approved by the House of Commons with reluctant cross-party support after Manning’s claim that the only alternative was a “no-deal” exit from the EU, Manning announced her divorce from her husband Damien. Speculation began to mount that she was engaged in a romantic relationship with the Prime Minister - a claim both denied, but which was widely alluded to in the press. She presented the Housing and Education Bills to the House of Commons - both fiercely controversial in their own rights.

In 2021, the Latvian Crisis sparked a major diplomatic effort led by Manning and the wider UK Government to support an invocation of Article V of the North Atlantic Treaty in response to alleged Russian military incursions in eastern Latvia. In exchange for eastern European support, Manning signed a preliminary agreement to station a permanent troop deployment in Poland and to fund security and defence initiatives coordinated by the Vísegrad Group with £800 million by 2026. She met personally with the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In the NATO Council vote in February 2021, only Germany and the United States opposed the invocation of Article V, leading to a Foreign Office leak suggesting that Manning was “furious” with the Merkel and Trump administrations.

As the crisis deepened and widespread violence across Latvia continued, Manning ordered the evacuation of British citizens and offered the Latvian government the opportunity to form a government-in-exile in London. She successfully convinced the British Parliament to apply significant economic sanctions to the Russian government, which she claimed were worth in excess of £12.3 billion to the Russian economy. She also instructed the British Embassy in Riga to offer “whatever support it could” to Latvian citizens affected by the crisis.

Manning voted and campaigned for Britain to remain in the European Union, ironically later becoming the minister who completed Britain’s withdrawal from the bloc. Her Brexit deal polarised opinion, and was both credited with a turnaround in the Conservative Party’s polling in Scotland and London and blamed for an inverse turnaround in favourability in the north east of England.

Manning has no children; she suffered an ectopic pregnancy in 1989 and was informed that she would likely never be able to give birth. She announced that she was seeking a divorce from her partner, Damien, in 2020. The couple previously owned Hensol Castle in Wales, but sold the property in 2021. Manning enjoys tennis and netball and lives an active life. During the Christmas period in 2020, a widely-publicised reshuffle of staff in the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office triggered speculation that Manning was planning a leadership campaign: she has denied any intention of seeking the office of Prime Minister.
Rt Hon. Ms Juliet Manning MP
Member of Parliament for Clwyd West

Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Lord President of the Council
Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs
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