Penny Mordaunt

Penelope Mary Penny Mordaunt is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Portsmouth North since winning the seat at the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

The daughter of a paratrooper, one of twins born in Torquay, Devon, Mordaunt was named after the Leanderclass frigate HMS Penelope. Her father, who was born in Hilsea barracks, left the Parachute Regiment before the family moved to Portsmouth in 1975, when Mordaunt was aged two, so that he could retrain as a teacher. He taught at Oak Park school and later became a youth worker for Hampshire Council. Her mother was a special needs teacher at several Purbrook schools, and her stepmother is also a local primary school teacher.

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