Belinda de Lucy

Belinda Claire De Camborne Lucy (born 15 October 1976) is a British former politician. She served as a Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 2019 to 2020.

Belinda de Lucy
Member of the European Parliament
for South East England
In office
2 July 2019 – 31 January 2020
Preceded byNirj Deva
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born (1976-10-15) 15 October 1976
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
Political partyBrexit Party
SpouseRaymond McKeeve
Children4
OccupationPolitician

Early life

Belinda Claire De Camborne Lucy was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, on 15 October 1976.[1][2] Her great-grandfather was Edward Selby Little, a missionary in China, and a co-founder of the resort town of Guling, Jiujiang. She reports that she can speak Mandarin.[3][4][5]

Political career

She voted for Brexit in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum and campaigned with the Leave Means Leave, and Ladies for Leave groups.[6][7] In the 2019 European parliamentary election, De Lucy stood as a candidate for the Brexit Party in the South East England constituency. She was fourth on her party's list, and was elected as one of its four MEPs in the constituency.[8][9] In the European Parliament, she was a member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, and part of the delegation to the EU–Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.[2]

Personal life

She is married to Raymond McKeeve and they have four children.[7][10] McKeeve is a senior partner at corporate firm Dial Partners.[11] He was a senior advisor at the legal firm Avonhurst, group chief transaction and legal officer at Cingo Global, and a part-time senior advisor and non-executive director at Azura Partners, and a private equity specialist and corporate finance partner at the law firm Jones Day.[12] Avonhurst was set up by a former Jones Day partner in July 2019. McKeeve had left Jones Day in 2020 after being accused of contempt of court. The charge stemmed from his instruction to one of the founders of Ocado to "burn" a messaging application after receiving a High Court search order in July 2019. He denied the charge but suggested that he had done so to protect his wife from potential litigation.[13][14][15] McKeeve was subsequently fined £25,000 and ordered to pay a further £610,353 in legal costs to Ocado in October 2022 after being found guilty of contempt of court in August 2022.[11][16]

She was a trustee of the charity Give Us Time, which was founded by former Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox in 2012.[17][18]

References
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  5. Hsu, Huan (4 April 2015). "In search of my family's buried treasure". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
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  7. Evans, Greg (2 March 2019). "Brexit campaign 'Ladies for Leave' roasted for vowing to 'protect our children's votes'". The Independent. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
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  10. Onita, Laura (21 December 2019). "Ocado dispute lawyer admits destroying evidence to protect Brexit MEP wife". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 21 January 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2022.(subscription required)
  11. Nair, Krishnan; Patel, Varsha (5 October 2022). "Ex-Jones Day Partner Raymond McKeeve Ordered to Pay £635,000 in Ocado Battle". ALM. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  12. "Mr Raymond McKeeve". University of Exeter. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  13. Tillay, Meganne (30 July 2020). "Raymond McKeeve Joins Former Jones Day Colleague's Boutique". ALM. Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
  14. Hyde, John (30 June 2022). "'Burn it' solicitor: Destroying evidence was 'utterly stupid'". The Law Society Gazette. Archived from the original on 30 June 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
  15. Baksi, Catherine (1 July 2022). "I gave stupid advice in Ocado case, says solicitor Raymond McKeeve". The Times. Archived from the original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022.(subscription required)
  16. Goss, Louis (5 October 2022). "City lawyer avoids jail after telling client to 'burn' evidence in Ocado case". City A.M. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  17. "About". Give Us Time. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  18. "Give Us Time". Companies House. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
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