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Angela Frances Browning (born 4 December 1946) is a British politician. She is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Tiverton and Honiton.

Born Angela Pearson in Reading, she was educated at the Westwood Girls Grammar School in Reading, Reading College of Technology, and the Bournemouth College of Technology. She became a Home Economics tutor in adult education from 1968 until 1974. She was an auxiliary nurse for a year in 1976. She was appointed as a sales and training manager with GEC Hotpoint in 1977. In 1985 she became a self-employed management consultant and was also became a director with the Small Business Bureau.

Browning contested Crewe and Nantwich at the 1987 general election but was narrowly defeated by the veteran Labour MP Gwyneth Dunwoody by just 1,092 votes. She was elected as the Chairperson of Women into Business in 1988. She was selected for the safe Conservative seat of Tiverton following the retirement of Robin Maxwell-Hyslop, who had represented the seat for 32 years. She held the seat comfortably at the 1992 general election with a majority of 11,089. She made her maiden speech on June 12, 1992.

After her election, Browning became a Member of the Agriculture Select Committee in 1992. She was appointed the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State at the Department for Education and Employment Michael Forsyth in 1993. Also in 1993 she became the President of the National Autistic Society. She entered John Major's government in 1994 when she became a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, where she remained until the Major government fell. She became a vice president of the National Alzheimer's Disease Society in 1997.

Her Tiverton seat was abolished, but she won the nomination for the newly drawn Tiverton and Honiton seat which she contested at the 1997 general election. She won the new seat with a majority of 1,653.

After John Major resigned from the Leadership of the Conservative Party she ran the John Redwood campaign team. She was appointed as an opposition spokeswoman on Education and Employment under William Hague but she stepped down in 1998 to look after her autistic adult son, Robin. However, Hague brought her back in 1999 and she entered the Shadow Cabinet as the Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary, and in 2000 was the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons. After the 2001 general election she was briefly an opposition spokesperson on Constitutional Affairs, before becoming the Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party 2000-2004.

In the 2005 general election, Browning increased her majority to 11,051; almost the majority of the original Tiverton seat she took in 1992.

She is a Member of both the Public Accounts and Standards and Privileges Select Committees. She has been married to David Browning since 1968 and they have two sons.

On 17 November 2006 she announced her intention not to stand as a candidate at the following General Election. [1]

• ePolitix - Angela Browning MP official site
• Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Angela Browning MP
• TheyWorkForYou.com - Angela Browning MP
• The Public Whip - Angela Browning MP voting record
• BBC News - Angela Browning profile 10 February, 2005