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Introduction
Thérèse Coffey is a British politician who has been Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since 6 September 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, she previously served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2019 to 2022. Coffey has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Suffolk Coastal since 2010.
Coffey served under Prime Minister Theresa May as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2016 to 2019, before serving under Prime Minister Boris Johnson as a Minister of State at the same department from July to September 2019. After Amber Rudd resigned from Johnson’s Cabinet, Coffey was appointed to the post of Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in September 2019.
She supported Liz Truss’s bid to become Conservative leader after Johnson resigned in 2022. Following Truss’s appointment as Prime Minister, she appointed Coffey as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and Deputy Prime Minister. Coffey is the first woman to serve as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Early life
| Name | Thérèse Coffey |
| Net Worth | $5 million |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Age | 50 years |
| Height | 1.65m |
Thérèse Anne Coffey was born on November 18, 1971 (age 50 years) in Billinge, Lancashire, United Kingdom. She grew up in Liverpool. She attended St Mary’s College, Rhos on Sea, and St Edward’s College, Liverpool. She attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she was involved with the Oxford Union. She then attended University College London, where she was awarded a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1998. After graduating Coffey worked in a number of roles for Mars, Incorporated, including as finance director for Mars Drinks UK, then worked for the BBC as a finance manager in the Property division.
Coffey stood as a Conservative Party candidate for Wrexham at the 2005 general election. She came third with 6,079 votes (20% of the vote). In the European Parliament elections in June 2004, Coffey stood for election to the European Parliament for South East England. The Conservative Party won 35.2% of the vote, giving it four seats, but Coffey was seventh on the list in this proportional representation system, meaning that she was not elected.
In 2009, at the next European elections, Thérèse Coffey was living in Andover, Hampshire; she missed out by one place on being elected to the European Parliament for South East England. The Conservative Party won 34.79% of the vote, giving it four seats, but she was fifth on the party list.
Parliamentary career
Thérèse Coffey moved from Hampshire to Westleton after being selected on 6 February 2010 to stand as the Conservative candidate for Suffolk Coastal. David Miller, the vice-chairman of the local Liberal Democrats, raised questions over the status of her residency there, claiming with reference to her Westleton property that “The address at which Ms Coffey currently resides is a holiday let”.
Coffey owns a flat and partly owns a house, both in Hampshire and has the tenancy of a house in Westleton. However, at the 2010 general election, Coffey was elected for Suffolk Coastal, becoming the constituency’s first female MP. Coffey received 25,475 votes (46.4% of the vote), an increase of 1.8% on John Gummer’s 2005 campaign. She is a supporter of the Free Enterprise Group. On 6 July 2011, Coffey defended Rebekah Brooks over the News of the World’s involvement in the news media phone hacking scandal.
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She said a “witch hunt” was developing against Brooks, and that simply to say Brooks was editor of the newspaper at the time was not enough evidence against her. Coffey became a member of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee inquiry into the hacking scandal in 2012. In that committee, she declined to support any motions critical of Rupert and James Murdoch. However, she later joined the majority of her party in voting for exemplary damages to be a default consequence to deter press misbehaviour.
Thérèse Coffey was a member of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee from July 2010 to October 2012, when she was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Michael Fallon, Minister for Business and Energy. In July 2014, she was appointed an assistant Government whip. In 2013 she voted against the legalization of same-sex marriage, stating: “I shall be voting against the Bill because my perspective on what marriage is really about is different from that of some other Members … for me it is fundamentally still about family, the bedrock of society.” She again voted against same-sex marriage in 2019 when Parliament considered the same question for Northern Ireland.
Coffey was appointed Deputy Leader of the House of Commons on 11 May 2015. In the House of Commons she sat on the Environmental Audit Committee from September 2017 to November 2019. Coffey’s decision to write a paper for the Free Enterprise Group recommending pensioners should pay National Insurance contributions provoked criticism among some older constituents, who claimed that in an already tough economic environment, it was wrong to tax pensioners further. Coffey said that she had “no regrets writing about National Insurance” and that it was “a policy proposal – it is by no means, at this stage, anymore than that.”
She also faced criticism from some Suffolk residents over her support for the Government’s proposal to sell off forestry and woodland in public ownership, in 2011. Protestors argued that “experience shows us that when private landowners come in they close car parks and make access as difficult as possible.” The proposal was later dropped by the Government.
In October 2016, she was criticized by the then Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron for accepting hospitality worth £890 from Ladbrokes after supporting the gambling industry in Parliament as part of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee. Coffey denied that she had been “influenced in her considerations on matters of related policy by any hospitality received”.
In January 2016, the Labour Party unsuccessfully proposed an amendment in Parliament that would have required private landlords to make their homes “fit for human habitation”. According to Parliament’s register of interests, Coffey was one of 72 Conservative MPs who voted against the amendment who personally derived an income from renting out property. The Government stated that they believed homes should be fit for human habitation but did not want to pass the new law that would explicitly require it.
Thérèse Coffey joined the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in July 2016 as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment and Rural Opportunities, under Theresa May. When Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in July 2019, Coffey was promoted to Minister of State. Following the resignation of Amber Rudd in September 2019, Coffey joined the Cabinet as the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Coffey retained her position in Johnson’s February 2020 cabinet reshuffle.
Coffey responded in June 2020 to Marcus Rashford’s campaign for free school meals for children during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying: “Water cannot be disconnected though” to a tweet from Rashford urging the Government to remember Britain’s poorest families, and which included the sentence: “When you wake up this morning and run your shower, take a second to think about parents who have had their water turned off during lockdown.” Shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds criticised Coffey for her tweet. She subsequently deleted her earlier comments and asserted her help and support for Rashford.
In September 2021, Coffey was accused of miscalculating the amount of work a Universal Credit claimant would need to do in order to make up for the proposed end of the £20-a-week increase in benefits, brought in to assist people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Coffey said: “We’re conscious that £20 a week is about two hours’ extra work every week – we will be seeing what we can do to help people perhaps secure those extra hours, but ideally also to make sure they’re also in a place to get better-paid jobs, as well.” However, given Universal Credit’s “taper rate” of 63%, a Universal Credit claimant sees their credit reduced by 63p for every pound they generate from work.
In December 2021, Coffey’s staff were accused of drinking and eating takeaways during the lockdown period. A Department for Work and Pensions spokesperson denied that any rules had been broken. A few weeks later, she tweeted support for the prime minister (in regards to Partygate allegations), expressing that she thought his apology to be sincere.
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Coffey continued to defend Johnson in July 2022 when he was accused of overlooking MP Chris Pincher’s alleged sexual misconduct when he was appointed Deputy Chief Whip. Coffey went on record to say that Johnson was “not aware” of “specific” allegations relating to Pincher. She went on to say in several interviews that she felt Johnson had dealt with the issue decisively. She was then later contradicted when Johnson’s spokesman admitted that he was aware of some allegations relating to Pincher when the latter was appointed deputy chief whip in February 2022.
Downing Street conceded that Johnson was aware of allegations that were “either resolved or did not proceed to a formal complaint” in relation to Pincher, who resigned the previous week over reports that he had drunkenly groped two men at the Carlton Club. Coffey was campaign manager for Liz Truss in the Parliamentary stages of the 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. She remained in a campaign role in the members’ vote stage of the election. Lizz Truss appointed Coffey as Deputy Prime Minister and Health and Social Care Secretary in her new government on 6 September 2022. Her appointment made her the first woman to serve as Deputy Prime Minister.
Husband
Thérèse Coffey is a private person and is single. Her sister Clare has worked in her parliamentary office as a secretary since 2015. Coffey is Catholic. Coffey is an avid football fan, supporting Liverpool F.C. She signed an Early Day Motion in 2011 set down by Labour Liverpool Walton MP Steve Rotheram requesting a knighthood for Kenny Dalglish. She enjoys gardening, karaoke, and music. As of mid-2022, Thérèse Coffey has no husband or children.
Thérèse Coffey net worth
How much is Thérèse Coffey worth? Thérèse Coffey net worth is estimated at around $5 million. Her main source of income is from her career as a politician. Thérèse Coffey’s salary per month with other career earnings is over $1 million dollars annually. She is one of the richest and most influential politicians in the United Kingdom. Her successful career has earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips. Thérèse Coffey stands at an appealing height of 1.65m and has a healthy body weight that compliments her personality.