Anne Campbell

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term_start = 1 April 1992
term_end = 11 April 2005
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successor = David Howarth
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Anne Campbell (born 6 April 1940) is an English politician. She was the Labour member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridge from 1992 to 2005.

Early life

She went to Newnham College, Cambridge, taking the Maths Tripos, and gaining an MA in 1965.

Before she became an MP she was a councillor on Cambridgeshire County Council from 1985-9. She was a secondary school maths teacher in Cambridgeshire, a lecturer in Statistics at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology (became Anglia Higher Education College in 1989) from 1970-83, and head of Statistics and Data Processing at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany from 1983-92.

Parliamentary career

She was first elected in the 1992 general election. Under threat of deselection, in 2003 she resigned as Patricia Hewitt's PPS to vote against the Iraq War, having previously voted in favour of action on 26 February. She lost her seat at the 2005 general election to David Howarth of the Liberal Democrats. Campbell's defeat was in part attributed to her perceived indeciveness over the government's university top-up fee programme: she abstained on the second reading of the bill, then voted with the government on the third reading, despite a public promise that she would oppose the scheme [http://www.varsity.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7800&Itemid=26] . This move was very unpopular amongst the large student population of her constituency.fact|date=March 2008

Campbell was described as a 'loyal Blairite' and a 'ministerial bag-carrier' in the national press.

In 2008, Campbell was portrayed by Harriet Walter in 10 Days to War, a BBC television dramatisation of the events leading up to the Iraq war.fact|date=March 2008

Campbell became Chair of the Fabian Society for 2008. [http://fabians.org.uk/news/campbell-chair/]

Personal life

Anne Campbell is a vegetarian. Campbell was often seen riding her bike around the Cambridge constituency and was the first MP to run a website. She married Archibald, a Cambridge professor, in 1963 and they have a son and two daughters.

External links

* [http://www.annecampbell.org.uk Official site]
* [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/anne_campbell/cambridge They Work For You]