Heather Brooke (born 1970) is a journalist, writer, and freedom of information activist, resident in London, United Kingdom. She is best known as one of the leading figures exposing the House of Commons resistance to disclosing expenses of Members of Parliament (MPs), generating a furore that culminated in the resignation of Speaker Michael Martin.
Brooke was born in Pennsylvania in the USA to British-immigrant parents from Liverpool, and has dua...
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Heather Brooke (born 1970) is a journalist, writer, and freedom of information activist, resident in London, United Kingdom. She is best known as one of the leading figures exposing the House of Commons resistance to disclosing expenses of Members of Parliament (MPs), generating a furore that culminated in the resignation of Speaker Michael Martin.
Brooke was born in Pennsylvania in the USA to British-immigrant parents from Liverpool, and has dual citizenship in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. She grew up in the state of Washington, where her mother worked for Boeing, and graduated from Federal Way High School, after having also spent some time being educated in the UK.
Brooke graduated from the University of Washington school of communications in 1993, where she also got her start in journalism at The Daily, the student newspaper. Along with covering news stories she was also a sex columnist for the paper, writing with what she called a "feminist" slant. An...
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