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Anna Dixon

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Anna Dixon
MBE MP
BERJAYA
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Shipley
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byPhilip Davies
Majority8,603 (17.8%)[1]
Personal details
PartyLabour
Alma materTrinity Hall, Cambridge
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London School of Economics
Websitehttps://www.annadixonmp.co.uk/

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

Education

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Dixon 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]

Career

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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 a member of the Advisory Group to the Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland, between September 2020 and January 2021.[7] In 2021 she was appointed as the chair of the Archbishop’s Commission on Reimagining Care, which was published in 2023 by the Church of England.[8][9]

Dixon was selected as a Labour Party general election candidate for the Shipley constituency on 31 July 2022,[10] and ran in the 2024 general election, beating Conservative incumbent Philip Davies by 8,603 votes.[1]

On 11 May 2026, she called on prime minister Keir Starmer to resign following the local elections, in which Labour lost control of Bradford Council.[11]

Dixon is chair of the all-party parliamentary group on carers.[12]

Selected publications

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  • The Age of Ageing Better? A Manifesto For Our Future (2020)[13]

References

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  1. 1 2 "Shipley | General Election 2024". Sky News. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  2. ↑ "Shipley - General election results 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Anna Dixon". LinkedIn. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  4. ↑ "Cambridge Tripos results", The Times, 17 July 1992, p. 41.
  5. ↑ "The King's Fund's Anna Dixon to join Department of Health". GOV.UK. 21 February 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  6. ↑ "Dr Anna Dixon recognised in New Year's Honours List 2021". Centre for Ageing Better. 30 December 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  7. ↑ "Reimagining Care commissioners". www.churchofengland.org. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  8. ↑ Better, Centre for Ageing. "Dr Anna Dixon announced as Chair of Archbishop's new Commission on Reimagining Care | Centre for Ageing Better". ageing-better.org.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  9. ↑ "Final report of the Reimagining Care Commission". www.churchofengland.org. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  10. ↑ Meek, Natasha (1 August 2022). "Labour party chooses MP candidate for next general election". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  11. ↑ Thomson, Freya (10 May 2026). "Bradford district MP calls the PM a 'good man' but says he should step down". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. Retrieved 11 May 2026.
  12. ↑ Butler, Patrick (19 July 2026). "Many carers hit with demands to repay more than £20,000 despite reforms". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  13. ↑ Dixon, Anna (2020). The Age of Ageing Better? A Manifesto For Our Future. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472960733.
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