Jill Fraser (UK Politician)

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Jill Fraser is a British Liberal Democrat politician, and Mayor of Camden. She also represents Haverstock ward on Camden Borough Council, after taking the 60 year old Labour seat in a 2003 by-election.

Fraser was born in Essex, but has lived in Camden most of her life. She founded the West Kentish Town Tenants and Residents Association and the Queens Crescent Business Association as well as acting as Secretary to the Chalk Farm Business Association and Chair to the original Gospel Oak Regeneration Board (GOTCHA). Her children were brought up in Camden, and she has been a Governor at Rhyl Primary School for 18 years.

At the 2005 general election, Fraser stood against Frank Dobson in the Holborn and St Pancras parliamentary constituency, securing an 11% swing to the Liberal Democrats and almost doubling the Liberal Democrat vote.