Office: | Member of Parliament for Buckingham and Bletchley |
Predecessor: | Constituency created |
Term Start: | 4 July 2024 |
Majority: | 2,421 (5.0%) |
Office1: | Member of Ealing London Borough Council for South Acton |
Term Start1: | 5 May 2022 |
Birth Name: | Callum Bradley Anderson |
Birth Place: | Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England |
Party: | Labour |
Alma Mater: | University of Birmingham (BSc) |
Callum Bradley Anderson (born 1991 or 1992)[1] is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham and Bletchley since 2024.
Anderson was born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire to a black father and white mother.[2] [3] He was raised by his mother, a shopworker, in a council house.
In 2013, Anderson received a Bachelor of Science in Economics with German from Birmingham University.[4] He has worked as a policy adviser to the London Stock Exchange and City of London Corporation, having previously worked for several think tanks.[5] [6]
Anderson joined the Labour Party at 18 years old. He has been a member of Labour's National Policy Forum, supported by Labour to Win, and the BAME Labour Network executive.[7] [8]
Anderson stood as a Labour candidate at the 2019 general election, finishing second-place in his former home constituency of South West Bedfordshire. He expressed support for a second EU referendum during the election campaign.[9]
He unsuccessfully applied to be a Londonwide candidate for the 2021 London Assembly election,[10] and the Parliamentary candidate for Stevenage in 2022.[11]
Anderson was elected as a Member of Ealing London Borough Council for South Acton in 2022. In Ealing, he has been a school governor and one of the Council's Race Equality Commissioners.[12]
At the 2024 general election, Anderson was elected as the first MP for the new Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.[13] He defeated Conservative Iain Stewart, who had served as MP for one of its predecessor constituencies.[14] [15]