[5] His paternal grandparents Salamon and Bertha Brandes, who formerly ran a drapery business in Bamberg, Bavaria, were deported in 1941 to German-occupied Latvia, where his grandmother was executed in a massacre in Riga and his grandfather was last heard of alive doing forced labour in a peat bog.
[3] Bradley was educated at Abingdon School – where he was a classmate of Francis Maude – and the University of Sussex, followed by Occidental College, Los Angeles.
The incumbent Labour MP for The Wrekin, Bruce Grocott, decided to stand for the new Telford seat in the 1997 general election.
[12][13] He was also a target of the strategy led by Lord Ashcroft to concentrate resources on key marginal seats which saw £50,000 donated to the Conservative campaign to unseat him.
He was a member of the Public Administration Select Committee, 1997–9, which played a major role in the development and passage of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
He is a co-founder and director of the Speakers' Corner Trust, a registered charity promoting free expression, public debate and active citizenship as a means of revitalising civil society in the UK as well as in Berlin, Prague and Nigeria.