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Candy Atherton (Candice Kathleen Atherton) was born on 21 September, 1955 in Surrey, England, is a British politician (1955–2017). Discover Candy Atherton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

Popular As Candice Kathleen Atherton
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Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 21 September 1955
Birthday 21 September
Birthplace Surrey, England
Date of death 30 October, 2017
Died Place Luton, Bedfordshire, England
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1955

Candice Kathleen Atherton (21 September 1955 – 30 October 2017) was a British Labour politician and journalist.

1975

Such shortlists were subsequently ruled to be in breach of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, and thus unlawful.

1980

Atherton worked as a journalist from 1980.

1982

In 1982, she led protests within the Labour Party and the CND movement against the Task Force sent to the Falkland Islands.

1984

In 1984, she co-founded Everywoman – a "post-feminist" women's magazine – and later co-wrote a book on housing for single homeless people in North London.

Atherton also worked with ex-offenders, and co-founded a women's shelter in West Sussex.

1985

From the Polytechnic of North London (now London Metropolitan University), she graduated BA in Applied Social Studies in 1985.

1986

From 1986 to 1992, she served as a Labour councillor in the London Borough of Islington and was mayor for the year 1989–1990.

She chaired the Women's and Disability Committees of both Islington and the Association of London Labour Authorities.

1990

In the early 1990s, she left London and lived in Westbury, Wiltshire, where she stood unsuccessfully as a Labour candidate in the elections of 1993 to Wiltshire County Council.

She then worked for the Labour Party and Unison, before being selected to fight the three-way marginal seat of Falmouth and Camborne in Cornwall, after the local Labour Party had imposed the first all-women shortlist in the country.

1992

Atherton stood for Labour at Chesham and Amersham in the 1992 general election.

1997

After serving as a councillor in Islington, where she was mayor, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Falmouth and Camborne from 1997 to 2005.

In her later life she lived in Cornwall and was a member of Cornwall Council.

Born in Surrey, she attended the independent Roman Catholic all-girls Convent of the Sacred Heart (now Woldingham School) in Woldingham, Surrey, then Midhurst Grammar School in West Sussex.

Despite that judgement, she remained in place as the candidate for the 1997 general election.

2001

She doubled her majority in the 2001 election, having successfully campaigned for Objective One status for Cornwall, for the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, and for a university in Cornwall.

She spearheaded the campaign to open a Minor Injuries Unit in Camborne Redruth Community Hospital – now used by more than 12,000 people a year – and the campaign to expose the nerve gas station at Nancekuke (RRH Portreath) in her constituency.

2002

Atherton married a Cornishman, Broderick Ross, in 2002, and lived with him in Falmouth, Cornwall.

2004

Paul Phillips, a gay aide Atherton employed for a year until March 2004, resigned and claimed discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, accusing her of homophobia and of asking him to find information on her Conservative opponent in Falmouth because he was also gay.

The tribunal found in Atherton's favour.

Atherton's record of voting in the House of Commons was generally supportive of gay rights.

2005

Taking Labour from third place to first, she was elected as the Member of Parliament for Falmouth and Camborne, holding the seat until the election of 2005.

At the 2005 general election, Atherton lost her seat to Liberal Democrat Julia Goldsworthy by a majority of 1,886.

Afterwards, she continued to campaign for women's political advancement, disability rights and rural housing reform.

As of 2021, Atherton is the most recent Labour MP to represent one of the six constituencies of Cornwall.

From 2005 to 2008, Atherton was a board member of the Housing Corporation and she chaired the Rural Housing Advisory Panel, which advises the British government on rural housing issues.

2006

In 2006, she founded Atherton Associates, a public affairs company, and has worked for British Waterways and the Inland Waterways Association and with Weber Shandwick Public Affairs.

2008

From October 2008, she was a board member of the Homes and Communities Agency.

She was the vice chair of the Truro and Falmouth Constituency Labour Party and was member of the Labour Party's South West Regional Board.

2009

In 2009 Atherton, her husband, her mother Pam Atherton and mother-in law Betty Ross stood for election to the newly formed Cornwall Council.

Atherton contested the Carn Brea North division, finishing third in a field of four, with 23% of the vote, while her husband finished last out of four in Camborne Central with 11%.

Both seats were won by the Conservatives.

Pam Atherton finished last out of six in St Day and Lanner with 3%, and Betty Ross finished last out of seven in Wendron, both of those contests being won by Independents.

2013

Atherton was elected to Cornwall Council in the 2013 local elections, where she represented the Falmouth Smithick division until her death.

2014

In 2014, she acted as the spearhead to pass an Article 4 direction through Cornwall Council, a piece of legislation which requires landlords planning to convert a property into a house of multiple occupancy (HMO) to have planning permission.

2016

She opposed the expansion of Falmouth University in 2016.

2017

Atherton died suddenly overnight in Luton, Bedfordshire, on 30 October 2017 at the age of 62.

Prime Minister Theresa May paid tribute to her at Prime Minister's Questions on 1 November, which were echoed by Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn.