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Nicola "Nickie" Aiken is a British politician, and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cities of London and Westminster since 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, she defeated Chuka Umunna, the Liberal Democrats' candidate who had left the Labour Party in protest against Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.
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She has been the Leader of Westminster City Council since January 2017. She voted to remain in the EU in the 2016 referendum.
In early December 2019, she left Twitter, calling it "toxic". As of 2019, Aiken has lived in Pimlico for 20 years. She is married to civil servant Alex Aiken, the UK Government's communications chief. They have two children. From 2000 to 2012, Alex was director of communications and strategy for Westminster City Council, and before that worked for the Conservative Party as head of its campaigns unit and its press office.