Juliet Campbell | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2024 | |
Member of Parliament for Broxtowe | |
Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
Preceded by | Darren Henry |
Majority | 8,403 (17.6%) |
Member of Lewisham London Borough Council for Blackheath | |
In office 3 May 2018 –30 May 2024 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Juliet Olive Campbell Bilborough,Nottingham [1] |
Political party | Labour |
Juliet Olive Campbell [2] is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Broxtowe since the 2024 general election. [3] She was previously the Cabinet Member for Safer Lewisham,Refugees and Equalities on Lewisham Council. [1] [4]
Campbell was born in Bilborough to Jamaican parents. [5] Her father is an engineer who received training from the Army Reserve in the 1970s. [6] Her father eventually started working at Boots,while her mother ran a shop in Radford. [5] Campbell previously worked as a senior manager in the NHS before entering politics. [7]
According to LabourList,"Campbell [was] a councillor on Lewisham council in London,representing Blackheath ward and [served] as cabinet member for communities,refugees and wellbeing." [8] During her tenure as councillor she helped with the transformation of a historic telephone box into a mini library for the community. [9] She resigned as councillor on the day the election was called. [10]
Since being elected to parliament,she has served as part of the delegation members to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. [6] Campbell opposed Kim Leadbeater's bill introducing assisted suicide into law and served on the committee examining the legislation. [11] She has received some criticism for not being visible in the job,including from some councillors at Broxtowe Borough Council,to which she responded that her services "come in many forms" that were not just in parliament. [12]
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