Anne Campbell (born 6 April 1940) is an

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Labour Party politician. She was the

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(MP) for

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from

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Early life

She studied at

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, taking the Maths Tripos, and gaining an MA in 1965. Before she became an MP she was a councillor on

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from 1985–9. She was a secondary school mathematics teacher in Cambridgeshire, a lecturer in Statistics at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology (became Anglia Higher Education College in 1989) from 1970 to 1983, and head of Statistics and Data Processing at the

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from 1983 to 1992.

Parliamentary career

She was first elected in the 1992 general election. Under threat of deselection, in 2003 she resigned as

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's PPS to vote against the

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, having previously voted to support the Government's policy on 26 February. She lost her seat at the 2005 general election to

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of the Liberal Democrats. Campbell's defeat was in part attributed to her perceived indecisiveness 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

Campbell was described as a "loyal Blairite" in the national press. In 2008, Campbell was portrayed by Harriet Walter in ''

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'', a BBC television dramatisation of the events leading up to the Iraq war.

Subsequent career

Campbell is (2014) Chair of Governors at Parkside Federation Academy and a governor at UTC

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Cambridge She became Chair of the Fabian Society for 2008.

Awards

In 1997, Campbell became an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University.

Personal life

Campbell is a

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. She was often seen riding her bike around the

constituency and was the first MP to run a website."Parliament for the Future (P4tF)"
, Hansard Society, September 2007. In 1963 she married Archibald Campbell, a

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engineering professor and Fellow of Christ's College, who died on 21 November 2019. They had a son and two daughters.

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