Anna Dixon
Anna Dixon is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament for Shipley since 2024.[2] Education and careerDixon 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] Selected publications
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