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{{Short description|Jersey politician and former Chief Minister (2022-2024)}}
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| image               = File:Kristina moore temp portrait.jpg
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| honorific-prefix    = [[States Assembly#Composition|Deputy]]
| name                = Kristina Moore
| caption             = 
| office              = [[States Assembly#Composition|Deputy]] for [[Saint Mary, Jersey | St Mary]], [[St Ouen, Jersey | St Ouen]] and [[St Peter, Jersey | St Peter]]
| term_start          = 27 June 2022
| subterm             = '''Serving with'''
| suboffice           = [[Lucy Stephenson]]<br>[[Ian Gorst]]<br>[[Lyndon Farnham]]
| office2             = [[Chief Minister of Jersey]]
| monarch2            = [[Elizabeth II]]<br>[[Charles III]]
| lieutenant_governor2= [[Timothy Le Cocq|Sir Timothy Le Cocq]] (acting)<br>[[Jerry Kyd]]
| term_start2         = 11 July 2022
| term_end2           = 30 January 2024
| predecessor2        = [[John Le Fondré]]
| successor2          = [[Lyndon Farnham]]
| office3             = Chair of the [[States Assembly#Scrutiny functions|Corporate Services Scrutiny Panel]]
| term_start3         = 12 June 2018
| term_end3           = 12 July 2022
| predecessor3        = [[John Le Fondré]]
| successor3          = [[Sam Mézec]]
| office4             = [[Council of Ministers (Jersey)|Minister for Home Affairs]]
| term_start4         = 6 November 2014
| term_end4           = 7 June 2018
| 1blankname4         = Chief Minister
| 1namedata4          = [[Ian Gorst]]
| predecessor4        = [[Bryan Ian Le Marquand|Ian Le Marquand]]
| successor4          = [[Leonard Norman|Len Norman]]
| constituency4       = 
| majority4           = 
| office5             =  [[List of politicians in Jersey#Island-wide elections|Senator]]
| term_start5         = 1 June 2018
| term_end5           = 17 June 2022
| predecessor5        = 
| successor5          = 
| office6             = [[States Assembly#Composition|Deputy]] for [[St Peter, Jersey|Saint Peter]]
| term_start6         = 14 November 2011
| term_end6           = 1 June 2018
| predecessor6        = Colin Egré
| successor6          = Rowland Heulin
| birth_name          = Kristina Louise Moore
| birth_date          = {{birth based on age as of date|38 |2013|11|21}}
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| death_date          = 
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| party               = [[Independent politician|Independent]]
| relations           = 
| spouse              = James
| children            = 2 sons
| residence           = [[St Peter, Jersey | St Peter]], [[Jersey]]
| signature           = 
| website             = {{URL|https://moore4jersey.squarespace.com/}}
| footnotes           = 
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'''Kristina Louise Moore''' is a [[Jersey]] politician and former journalist who served as the [[Chief Minister of Jersey]] from July 2022 to January 2024.

She has served in the [[States Assembly]] since [[2011 Jersey general election | 2011]] and is currently a deputy for [[Saint Mary, Jersey | St Mary]], [[St Ouen, Jersey | St Ouen]] and [[St Peter, Jersey | St Peter]]. First serving as [[States Assembly#Composition|Deputy]] for [[Saint Peter, Jersey|St Peter]], she was [[Council of Ministers (Jersey)|Minister for Home Affairs]] from 2014 to 2018. In [[2018 Jersey general election | 2018]] she was elected as a [[States Assembly#Composition|senator]] and became Chair of the [[States Assembly#Scrutiny functions|Corporate Services Scrutiny Panel]].

In 2022, she was elected by the new States Assembly as the first female Chief Minister of Jersey, a role which she officially took on 12 July that year.

In January 2024, Moore lost a vote of no confidence in her position, becoming the first Chief Minister to do so.<ref name="itv">[https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2024-01-16/jerseys-chief-minister-ousted-in-historic-vote-of-no-confidence Jersey's Chief Minister removed from position by politicians in historic no confidence vote], itv.com, 16 January 2024</ref>

Before entering politics she worked for [[ITV Central]] in the UK and [[ITV Channel Television]] in Jersey.

==Journalism==
Before her election to the [[States Assembly]] in 2011, Moore spent over ten years working as a [[broadcast journalism|broadcast journalist]] based in the [[Channel Islands]] and the UK and presented Channel Television's nightly regional news programme, ''[[Channel Report]]''.{{fact|date=February 2022}}

After completing a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in [[French language|French]] at the [[University of Birmingham]] and a [[postgraduate diploma]] in broadcast journalism at [[Highbury College]], Moore worked in news departments for independent local radio stations in the South of England. For a few years, she worked for [[ITV Central]] in [[Nottingham]] as a reporter and newsreader for ''Central News East''.{{fact|date=February 2022}}

In 2000, she joined Channel Television as a news reporter, before going on to replace Jenny Kirk as a main anchor of ''Channel Report'' and taking up a role as a political correspondent. She also spent a short period working for [[Spotlight (BBC News)|BBC ''Spotlight'']] in the Channel Islands.{{fact|date=February 2022}}

==Political career==
Moore stood for St Peter's sole deputy seat in the [[2011 Jersey general election|2011 general election]] for the [[States Assembly]]. She was elected on 19 October 2011, defeating Wayne Le Marquand by 1,169 votes to 589.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gov.je/GOVERNMENT/HOWGOVERNMENTWORKS/ELECTIONS/Pages/Results.aspx |title=Election results 2011 |publisher=Gov.je |date= |accessdate=2012-10-05 |archive-date=18 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118114840/https://www.gov.je/GOVERNMENT/HOWGOVERNMENTWORKS/ELECTIONS/Pages/Results.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In her 2011 [[manifesto]], she stated that she would resist any further increases in Jersey's Goods and Services Tax ([[Economy of jersey#Taxation|GST]]), and would like to see the proposed reduction in the number of States Members carried out by 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vote.je/candidates/deputies/st-peter/moore-kristina-louise/ |title=MOORE, Kristina Louise |publisher=Vote.je |date= |accessdate=2012-10-07 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130218121454/http://www.vote.je/candidates/deputies/st-peter/moore-kristina-louise/ |archive-date=2013-02-18 |url-status=dead }}</ref> At this time in 2011, the GST rate was 5%, having been increased from 3% in June 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-12215231 |work=[[BBC News]]|title=Thousands sign petition against Jersey GST rise  |date=18 January 2011 |access-date=11 December 2012}}</ref>

On 15 October 2014, Moore was re-elected as deputy, defeating Debbie Hardisty by 1,335 votes to 200. Between 2014 and 2018, during [[Ian Gorst]]'s second term as Chief Minister, she served as Minister for Home Affairs – the minister responsible for public safety, law enforcement, emergency services and immigration. Her Assistant Minister was Deidre Mezbourian, [[Connétable (Jersey and Guernsey)| Connétable]] of [[Saint Lawrence, Jersey | Saint Lawrence]]. One notable law introduced during Moore's tenure was the Sexual Offences (Jersey) Law 2018, which strengthened protections for islanders (particularly children) against sexual offences, and for the first time introduced protection against [[female genital mutilation]].

In 2018, Moore announced that she would stand for senator in the upcoming [[2018 Jersey general election|general election]]. She was elected senator on 16 May 2018, coming second out of the seventeen candidates standing for the eight senator positions. She received 15,292 votes, only narrowly beaten by [[Tracey Vallois]] who received 15,518 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-jersey-44132410 |title=BBC Jersey – Jersey General Election 2018 |publisher=bbc.co.uk|date=2018-05-16 |accessdate=2020-11-10}}</ref> In the preceding election for [[Chief Minister of Jersey | Chief Minister]], she supported the incumbent, Senator Ian Gorst, who lost to Senator [[John Le Fondré]]. Moore left Government, and took up positions on various scrutiny panels, most prominently as Chair of the Corporate Services Panel and President of the Scrutiny Liaison Committee.

In November 2020, Moore lodged a [[motion of no confidence | vote of no confidence]] in Chief Minister John Le Fondré, over a scandal involving the [[Government of Jersey]] Chief Executive Charlie Parker being allowed to take up a [[Non-executive director | non-executive directorship]] as a second job.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/jsy/news/vote-no-confidence-issued/#.X6pR_FP7Q_U |title=Bailiwick Express – Senator brings no confidence vote against Chief Minister |publisher=bailiwickexpress.com|date=2020-11-03 |accessdate=2020-11-10}}</ref>

In the [[2022 Jersey general election | 2022 general election]] she was elected deputy for St. Mary, St. Ouen and St. Peter, after the role of senator was abolished. On 5 July 2022 she was elected Chief Minister by the States Assembly. She received 39 votes, with Deputy [[Sam Mézec]] of [[Reform Jersey]] receiving 10 votes. She assumed office on 12 July.

On 16 January 2024, Moore lost a vote of no confidence in the States by 27–22, becoming the first Chief Minister to do so, and the shortest-serving Chief Minister in Jersey's history.<ref name="itv" />

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*[http://www.vote.je/portfolio/moore-kristina/ MOORE, Kristina Louise on vote.je]

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