Background
CAMPBELL, Anne was born on April 6, 1940 in Yorkshire. Parents: Frank Lucas and Susan Lucas.
CAMPBELL, Anne was born on April 6, 1940 in Yorkshire. Parents: Frank Lucas and Susan Lucas.
She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, taking the Maths Tripos, and gaining an Master of Arts in 1965.
Before she became an Member of Parliament she was a councillor on Cambridgeshire County Council from 1985-1989. 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 to 1983, and head of Statistics and Data Processing at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany from 1983 to 1992. She was first elected in the 1992 general election.
Under threat of deselection, in 2003 she resigned as Patricia Hewitt"s Parliamentary Private Secretary to vote against the Iraq War, having previously voted to support the Government"s policy on 26 February.
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 10 Days to War, a British Broadcasting Corporation television dramatisation of the events leading up to the Iraq war. Subsequent Campbell is (2014) Chair of Governors at Parkside Federation Academy and a governor at UTC University Technical College Cambridge She became Chair of the Fabian Society for 2008.
She lost her seat at the 2005 general election to David Howarth of the Liberal Democrats.
Fellow of the Institut, of Statisticians. Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Member, Union for Manufacturing, Science and Finance, since 1983.
Member, Biometric Society member. Socialist Education Association. Clubs: member, Greenpeace.
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Spouse Archibald MacRobert Campbell, 1963.