James George Robert Bridges, Baron Bridges of Headley, MBE (born 15 July 1970^[1]), is a British politician. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union.^[2]

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).^[1]

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.^[3] 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.^[4][5]

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.