Fleur Anderson is the Labour Party MP for Putney, having first been elected to Parliament in 2019, gaining the seat from the Conservatives with a majority of 4,774. This was the only Labour gain in the 2019 General Election.
The Putney constituency is found in the South of London. The seat follows a large part of the District Line, dropping down from the southern bank of the Thames, to Southfields in the south, and Wandsworth town centre in the east. Containing a large number of expensive houses, the constituency also contains students from Roehampton and Kingston universities.
The seat was formerly represented at Westminster by the Conservative Cabinet Minister David Mellor before 1997, and by the later Conservative Education Secretary, Justine Greening, between 2005 and 2019. It was gained by Labour in 2019, having previously been held by the Party between 1997 and 2005. Almost three quarters of the local electorate here were opposed to Brexit, one of the highest levels in the UK.
Anderson currently serves as part of the Shadow front bench team on the Cabinet Office.
Born in 1971 on the Island of Jersey, Fleur Anderson was educated at the University of York, and worked for Cafod, Christian Aid, and Water Aid being elected to Parliament. She has been a councillor on Wandsworth Council, and was formerly Deputy Leader of the council’s Labour Group.
Anderson worked in Bosnia during the 1990s helping to rebuild villages affected by the war, and is Vice Chair of the All Party Group on Bosnia and Herzegovina
She supported Keir Starmer in the 2020 Labour leadership election.
In late 2021, Anderson led a campaign to prohibit the manufacture and sale of wet wipes containing plastic.
A selection of her political interests can be seen by the fact she is Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Charities and Volunteering, and on the Prevention of Genocide, and the Vice Chair of the All Party Group on Fair Trade, and Housing and Planning.
Website – www.fleuranderson.co.uk
Email – fleur.anderson.mp@parliament.uk
Twitter – @PutneyFleur
