Antonia Cox

Antonia is a journalist, former school governor and mother of three who first campaigned for the Conservatives in 1983. She worked as a community service volunteer between school and university and has been a patron of the Bloomfield Centre Appeal for child mental health services at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals in London.  She has worked in financial services, as banking correspondent of the Daily Telegraph and helped launch BreakingViews, an award-winning financial comment service. From 2001 to 2010 she was a leader writer at the London Evening Standard, and then became a policy adviser to the Conservative Shadow Transport Secretary. In 2004 she wrote the Policy Exchange publication “The Best Kit”, calling for better support for Britain’s armed forces. In 2010 she wrote “More Bang for the Buck”, a publication on getting better value from the defence budget, for the Centre for Policy Studies. She was parliamentary candidate for Islington South and Finsbury in 2010 and increased the Conservative vote by over 80%.

Last updated October 2011.