Dame Karen Anne Bradley[2] DBE (née Howarth; born 12 March 1970) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Staffordshire Moorlands since 2010 and the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee since 2024.

Bradley was appointed to the Cameron–Clegg coalition as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in 2013, before being promoted to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Preventing Abuse, Exploitation and Crime in 2014.

[6] Her family moved to Buxton, where she was educated at the local comprehensive, before studying at Imperial College London, graduating with a BSc in mathematics.

[9][10][11] Bradley was a member of the Conservative Party's A-List and was selected as the prospective parliamentary candidate for Staffordshire Moorlands in July 2006.

In late November 2016, she denied the appointment of Althea Efunshile, a former deputy chief of Arts Council England, as a non-executive director on the board of the state-owned broadcaster, Channel 4.

[21] In January 2018, Bradley was appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland after the resignation of James Brokenshire due to ill health.

In July 2018, she came under criticism in the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee for failing to take action on British government discrimination against former soldiers and police.

[27] The families of those who died on Bloody Sunday in January 1972 claimed that Bradley was attempting to interfere in the British government's decision on whether or not to prosecute the soldiers involved in the incident.