Sally Curtis Keeble was born on 13 October 1951 and is a British Labour Party politician.
16 Facts About Sally Keeble
1.
2.
Sally Keeble was the member of parliament for Northampton North from the 1997 to 2010 general elections, when she lost her seat to the Conservative Party candidate Michael Ellis.
3.
Sally Keeble had previously been Leader of Southwark Council from 1990 to 1993.
4.
Sally Keeble 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.
5.
Sally Keeble's father was the British diplomat Sir Curtis Keeble, a former ambassador to East Germany and the USSR.
6.
Sally Keeble then worked for the Labour Party as a Press Officer at Labour Headquarters from 1983 to 1984, then the Inner London Education Authority where she was assistant director for External Relations from 1984 to 1986, and was Head of Communications for the GMB trade union from 1986 to 1990 before becoming a full-time council leader in Inner London.
7.
Sally Keeble was a public affairs consultant from 1995 to 1997.
8.
In 1995, Sally Keeble was selected to stand for the Labour Party in Northampton North through an all-women shortlist.
9.
Sally Keeble served on the Agriculture Select Committee, and became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt.
10.
Sally Keeble chaired the taskforce on parks and urban green spaces.
11.
Sally Keeble introduced a private members bill to introduce the offence of causing death by careless driving: the measure was later accepted by the Government and introduced in the Road Safety Act 2006.
12.
Sally Keeble introduced ten-minute rule bills on flooding, and a bill on minimum pricing for alcohol.
13.
At the 2019 United Kingdom general election Sally Keeble failed to regain her Northampton North seat.
14.
Sally Keeble has stood as the Labour candidate at every general election between 1997 and 2019.
15.
Sally Keeble married Andrew Hilary Porter on 9 June 1990 in Camberwell; the couple have a son and daughter together.
16.
Sally Keeble is an honorary fellow of South Bank University.