Callum Anderson | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2024 | |
Member of Parliament for Buckingham and Bletchley | |
Assumed office 5 July 2024 | |
Preceded by | Constituency created |
Majority | 2,421 (5.0%) |
Member of Ealing London Borough Council for South Acton | |
Assumed office 5 May 2022 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Callum Bradley Anderson 1991or1992(age 32–33) Dunstable,Bedfordshire,England |
Political party | Labour |
Alma mater | University of Birmingham (BSc) |
Callum Bradley Anderson (born 1991 or 1992) [1] is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham and Bletchley since 2024.
Anderson was born in Dunstable,Bedfordshire to a black father and white mother. [2] [3] He was raised by his mother,a shopworker,in a council house.
In 2013,Anderson received a Bachelor of Science in Economics with German from Birmingham University. [4] He has worked as a policy adviser to the London Stock Exchange and City of London Corporation,having previously worked for several think tanks. [5] [6]
Anderson joined the Labour Party at 18 years old. [3] He has been a member of Labour's National Policy Forum,supported by Labour to Win,and the BAME Labour Network executive. [7] [8]
Anderson stood as a Labour candidate at the 2019 general election,finishing second-place in his former home constituency of South West Bedfordshire. He expressed support for a second EU referendum during the election campaign. [9]
He unsuccessfully applied to be a Londonwide candidate for the 2021 London Assembly election, [10] and the Parliamentary candidate for Stevenage in 2022. [11]
Anderson was elected as a Member of Ealing London Borough Council for South Acton in 2022. In Ealing,he has been a school governor and one of the Council's Race Equality Commissioners. [12]
At the 2024 general election,Anderson was elected as the first MP for the new Buckingham and Bletchley constituency. [13] He defeated Conservative Iain Stewart,who had served as MP for one of its predecessor constituencies. [14] [15]
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