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Barlow Syndrome - Symptom, Treatment and cause of Barlow Syndrome disease-condition.com | Lymphatic Therapy Rates - Celia of Santa Barbara celiaofsb.com | Lymphatic Therapy Rates - Celia of Santa Barbara celiaofsantabarbara.com |
Celia Anne Barlow (born 28 September 1955) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Hove since 2005.
[edit] Early lifeBarlow 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 assistant editor at Asia Television in Hong Kong in 1982. She returned to Britain in 1983 to become home news editor at 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. [edit] Parliamentary careerShe was elected secretary of the Chelsea Constituency Labour Party in 1993, and became the chair of the Chichester Constituency Labour Party in 1998. In 2000, she was selected to fight the safe Conservative seat of Chichester at the 2001 General Election and finished third, behind the winner Andrew Tyrie. In November 2004 Ivor Caplin, the Labour MP for the very marginal Hove constituency, announced his retirement at the next election[1] and Celia Barlow was chosen to fight the seat through a controversial All-Women Shortlist[2]. It was widely assumed that she would be defeated by Nicholas Boles, considered a rising star of the Conservative Party, but she was elected at the 2005 General Election with a majority of just 420 votes. She became the first of new MPs elected in 2005 to make their maiden speech in the House of Commons.[3] Barlow is a member of the Procedure Committee and previously served on the Environmental Audit Select Committee. Since May 2006 she has served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Ian Pearson, Economic Secretary in HM Treasury and Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. [edit] 2009 Parliamentary Expenses ScandalShe is one of many UK politicians to be implicated in the 2009 Expenses Scandal, spending £28,000 on her second home, then "flipping" it and using it as her main residence.[4] [edit] Personal lifeBarlow married the former BBC North America foreign correspondent and University of Hull-educated Yorkshireman Sam Jaffa in August 1988 in Bromsgrove. Her husband stood for the Eastleigh seat in 2001 as a Labour candidate. He is now seeking a seat in Yorkshire. They have two sons (one born February 1992) and a daughter (born January 1995). They have several properties in London, as well as houses in West Wittering and Hove. [edit] References[edit] External links
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