Anne Campbell
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Anne Campbell (born April 6, 1940) is an English politician. She was the Labour member of Parliament for Cambridge from 1992 to 2005. Campbell was often seen riding her bike around the Cambridge constituency and was the first MP to run a website.
She was first elected in the 1992 general election. In 2003 she resigned as Patricia Hewitt's PPS to vote against the Iraq War. Despite this, she lost the 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 [link]. This move was very unpopular amongst the large student population of her constituency.
Before she became an MP she was a councillor on Cambridgeshire County Council, and head of statistics and data processing at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, reading mathematics.
Anne Campbell is a vegetarian.
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