| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Bridges of Headley | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MBE |
| Office: | Chair of the Economic Affairs Committee |
| Term Start: | 19 January 2022 |
| Predecessor: | The Lord Forsyth of Drumlean |
| Office1: | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union |
| Primeminister1: | Theresa May |
| Term Start1: | 13 July 2016 |
| Predecessor1: | Position established |
| Successor1: | Steve Baker |
| Term End1: | 12 June 2017 |
| Office2: | Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office |
| Primeminister2: | David Cameron |
| Term Start2: | 29 May 2015 |
| Term End2: | 12 July 2016 |
| Predecessor2: | Sam Gyimah |
| Successor2: | Chris Skidmore |
| Office3: | Member of the House of Lords |
| Status3: | Lord Temporal |
| Term Label3: | as a life peer |
| Term Start3: | 2 June 2015 |
| Term End3: | present |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Alma Mater: | Exeter College, Oxford |
James George Robert Bridges, Baron Bridges of Headley,, is a British politician. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union.[1]
Bridges was educated at Rokeby Preparatory School, then attended Eton College followed by Exeter College, Oxford, where he received a BA degree (later promoted to an MA by seniority).
Bridges was Assistant Political Secretary to the Prime Minister John Major from 1994 to 1997. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1997. In the 2000s he served as Chairman of the Research Department and Campaign Director of the Conservative Party.
He was created a life peer as Baron Bridges of Headley, of Headley Heath in the County of Surrey, on 28 May 2015.[2]
Bridges served as a parliamentary secretary at the Department for Exiting the European Union in 2016 and 2017.
Bridges serves as Chair of the Economic Affairs Committee.
The Lord Bridges of Headley is a great-grandson of Poet Laureate Robert Bridges, and a grandson of senior civil servant Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges. He is a nephew of the late crossbench peer and ambassador to Italy Thomas Bridges, 2nd Baron Bridges, and of historian Margaret Aston.