1. Anne Frances Milton is a British former politician and lobbyist who served as Minister of State for Skills and Apprenticeships from 2017 to 2019.
21 Facts About Anne Milton
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Anne Milton was Member of Parliament for Guildford from 2005 to 2019.
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Anne Milton trained as a nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and obtained a diploma in district nursing from the London South Bank University.
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Anne Milton worked for the NHS for 25 years as a nurse which included working in primary care, research and supporting palliative care nurses.
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Anne Milton was a councillor for the Borough of Reigate and Banstead from 1999 to 2004 and was Conservative Group leader on the council from 2000 to 2003 and a member of the South East England Regional Assembly.
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Anne Milton applied to go on the Conservative Party's list of Parliamentary candidates in 1999 and was shortlisted in the selections for Bexhill and Battle and for Bridgwater but was not selected for a seat for the 2001 general election.
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Anne Milton was selected to contest the Guildford parliamentary constituency in the 2005 general election, a seat which the Conservatives had unexpectedly lost in 2001 to the Liberal Democrat Sue Doughty with the constituency becoming a marginal.
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Anne Milton was elected as the MP for Guildford at the 2005 general election with a margin of victory of 347 votes.
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In February 2006, Anne Milton was among a minority of Conservative MPs to oppose exceptions for private clubs from the proposed Smoking ban in England.
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Anne Milton had previously announced her opposition to a partial ban, stating it was "the worst possible solution".
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Anne Milton held her seat in the 2010 general election and increased her majority to 7,782 votes.
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In July 2010, Anne Milton suggested that doctors should describe obese patients as 'fat' to encourage them to take responsibility for their condition.
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Anne Milton voted for the United Kingdom to remain with the European Union in the June 2016 membership referendum.
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Anne Milton was re-elected as MP for Guildford in the 2017 snap general election.
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On 23 July 2019, Anne Milton resigned as Minister of State for Skills and Apprenticeships shortly before Boris Johnson was announced as the new leader of the Conservative Party and, thus, Prime Minister.
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Anne Milton said that she could not serve in a government which said there was a possibility of the UK leaving the European Union with no deal.
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Anne Milton had the whip removed in September 2019 and subsequently sat as an independent politician.
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Anne Milton stood for re-election in the 2019 general election as an independent and lost to the Conservative candidate Angela Richardson.
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In 2022, Anne Milton joined lobbying firm PLMR as an advisor.
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Anne Milton married her first husband Neil Milton in 1979 in Haywards Heath; the couple later divorced.
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Anne Milton's second husband, Dr Graham Henderson, whom she married in February 2000 in Surrey, is a former local medical director at Virgin Healthcare.