Karen Allen was last night selected to fight South Shields at the next general election.
Karen grew up in South Shields, went to Harton Comprehensive School in the constituency and her family still live there. She is a former member of the Conservative Future National Management Executive and is currently a member of the Executive Committee of Conservative Way Forward. Karen read English Literature at Queen Mary, University of London, after whcih she went to work in the City as a Lloyd’s Broker. She is currently employed as a Director at Tower Perrin, a global reinsurance brokerage, where she specialises in North American Casualty business.
She will be challenging Foreign Secretary David Miliband in a constituency that has never returned a Conservative MP. After minor boundary changes, Mr Miliband will defend a notional majority of 13,368 over the Lib Dems, with the Tories close behind in third place.
