Pam Cox | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament for Colchester | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Will Quince |
| Majority | 8,250 (18.4%) |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA) and (Ph.D.) |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Rescue and reform Girls,delinquency and industrial schools 1908-1933 (1997) |
Pamela Margaret Cox is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Colchester since 2024.
Pamela Cox was brought up in Southend. Her mother was a midwife before becoming a nurse. Her father left school at the age of 15 and was apprenticed as a joiner before joining the church and becoming a minister. She has two sisters,both of whom became nurses in south Essex. [1]
Cox studied history at Robinson College,Cambridge, [2] and in 1997 was awarded a PhD for a thesis on the history of girls' delinquency in Britain. [3] Prior to her election as an MP,she was a professor of social history and criminology at the University of Essex,and has been a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts since 2017. She presented the BBC documentary series, Shopgirls:The True Story of Life Behind the Counter and Servants:The True Story of Life Below Stairs ,and has contributed to historical and cultural programmes for Channel 4 and Channel 5 including Edwardian Britain in Colour . [3]
In 1994,Cox joined the Labour Party. [4] She has been a New Town and Christ Church councillor since May 2021,and on 5 November 2022 she became the Labour Party prospective parliamentary candidate in the 2024 general election for Colchester. [5] [6] [7] Upon her election to parliament,she became the first female MP to represent the constituency. [8]
In November 2024,Cox voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill,which proposes to legalise assisted suicide. [9]
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