Sally Keeble

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Sally Keeble MP
Sally Keeble
Member of Parliament
for Northampton North
Incumbent
Assumed office 
1 May 1997
Preceded by Antony Marlow
Born 13 October 1951 (1951-10-13) (age 56)
Nationality British
Political party Labour

Sally Curtis Keeble (born 13 October 1951) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.

She has been Member of Parliament for Northampton North since the 1997 general election. She had previously been leader of Southwark Council from 1990-3.

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[edit] Early life

She went to the independent Cheltenham Ladies' College, and later attended St Hugh's College, Oxford, gaining a BA degree in Theology in 1973, and a BA in Sociology from the University of South Africa in 1981. Before entering Parliament she was a journalist in South Africa for the Daily News in Durban from 1973-9 and then in Birmingham on the Birmingham Post from 1978-83. She then worked for the Labour Party as a Press Officer at Labour Headquarters from 1983-4, then the Inner London Education Authority where she was Assistant Director for External Relations from 1984-6, and was Head of Communications for the GMB trade union from 1986-90 before becoming a full-time council leader in inner London. She was a public affairs consultant from 1995-7.

[edit] Parliamentary career

Sally has been a member of the Treasury Committee since 2005.

[edit] Personal life

Sally married Andrew Hilary Porter on June 9 1990 in Camberwell and they have a son and daughter. She is an honorary fellow of South Bank University. Her sister, Jane Mahoney, and her sister's husband Anthony were killed on July 12 1998 near Darwin in Australia. A Hells Angel motorcyclist had ploughed into them whilst they were waiting by the roadside after Anthony was changing a wheel. The Hells Angel carried on driving and failed to report the accident. After the accident, her father, Sir Curtis Keeble, the former British ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1978-82 and governor of the BBC had a heart attack.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Antony Marlow		 Member of Parliament for Northampton North
1997 – present		 Incumbent