Celia Barlow
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Celia Anne Barlow (September 28, 1955) British politician and is the Labour Member of Parliament for Hove.
Celia Barlow was born in Cardiff, Wales, and was educated at the University of Cambridge and Cardiff University. She began her career as a reporter on the Bradford Telegraph and Argus in 1979. She was appointed an assistant editor with Asia Television in Hong Kong in 1982. She returned to Britain in 1983 to become the Home News Editor with the BBC. She left the BBC in 1995. She became a freelance video producer in 1998 before lecturing in video production at the Chichester College of Art and Design from 2000.
She was elected Secretary of the Chelsea Constituency Labour Party in 1993, and became the Chair of the Chichester Constituency Labour Party in 1998. She was selected to fight the safe Tory seat of Chichester at the 2001 General Election coming third and way behind the winner Andrew Tyrie.
Ivor Caplin, the Labour MP for the very marginal Hove, retired and Celia Barlow was chosen to fight the seat. It was widely assumed that she would be defeated by Nicholas Boles, considered a rising star of the Conservative Party, but was elected at the 2005 General Election by just 420 votes. Despite her low majority, Celia Barlow became the first of the 2005 new MPs to make her maiden speech in the House of Commons.
She is currently the Parliamentary Private Secretary Ian Pearson, the Minister of State for Climate Change. She is a member of the Environmental Audit and Proceedure Select Committees
Celia Barlow is married to Sam Jaffa and they have two sons and a daughter.
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| Preceded by Ivor Caplin |
Member of Parliament for Hove 2005 – present |
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