Maurice Bradley (born 5 April 1954) is a

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(DUP) politician, serving as a

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(MLA) for East Londonderry since

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

. Bradley is the DUP's

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spokesperson. He was previously a Coleraine Councillor for the Coleraine East DEA from 1994 to 2014.

Career

Bradley was first elected to Coleraine Borough Council in a 1994 by-election, representing the Coleraine East District, and was subsequently re-elected in

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. At the

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, he was one of three DUP candidates standing in East Londonderry, though Bradley himself was not elected. He was re-elected as a Councillor in the 2005 local elections. Bradley served twice as mayor of

Coleraine Coleraine ( ; from , 'nook of the ferns'Flanaghan, Deirdre & Laurence; ''Irish Place Names'', page 194. Gill & Macmillan, 2002. ) is a town and Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish near the mouth of the River Bann in County Londonderry, No ...

, firstly between 2007-2008 and later between 2011 and 2012. Bradley stood for the Northern Ireland Assembly in the 2016 election, after Gregory Campbell stood down and was elected, in the first count, topping the poll. Bradley was criticised in 2018 for sharing a post that described London mayor

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as "the enemy within" and defending a far-right march in Poland.

References

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