Fiona Claire Bruce[3] (née Riley; born 26 March 1957) is a former British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Congleton from 2010 to 2024.
Bruce contested Warrington South in the 2005 general election, finishing second with 33% of the vote behind the incumbent Labour MP Helen Southworth.
[9] Following her selection as the Conservative Party candidate for Congleton, Bruce denied allegations that she had been chosen following an orchestrated campaign by religious groups sympathetic to her evangelical Christian beliefs.
[13] In February 2015, Bruce introduced an amendment to the Serious Crime Bill 2014 to make abortion on the grounds of the sex of the baby illegal.
[24] In 2020, she was appointed by Boris Johnson as the Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief,[25] and in this capacity was supportive of a petition to grant asylum to Maira Shahbaz and her family, a Pakistani Christian girl who has received death threats.
[26] In May 2021 Bruce co-authored an essay entitled "Family Matters – the Case for Strengthening Families" with former MP, David Burrowes, for inclusion in Common Sense: Conservative Thinking for a Post-Liberal Age published by the Common Sense Group, an informal group of Conservative MPs.