Anna Dixon | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament for Shipley | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Philip Davies |
| Majority | 8,603 (17.8%) [1] |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | Trinity Hall,Cambridge London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London School of Economics |
| Website | https://www.annadixonmp.co.uk/ |
Anna Dixon is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament for Shipley since 2024. [2]
Dixon was educated at Ilkley Grammar School in West Yorkshire. [3] She then attended Trinity Hall,Cambridge,where she read social and political science,followed by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London School of Economics,where she was awarded a PhD in social policy in 2007. [3] [4]
Dixon worked as Director of Policy at the King's Fund,before becoming Director of Quality and Strategy and Chief Analyst at the Department of Health in 2013. [5]
In 2015 Dixon took a leadership role in the charity Centre for Ageing Better,work for which she was awarded an MBE in 2021. [6]
Dixon was selected as a Labour Party general election candidate for the Shipley constituency on 31 July 2022, [7] and ran in the 2024 general election,beating Conservative incumbent Philip Davies by 8,603 votes. [1]
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