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'''Anne Frances Milton'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.guildford.gov.uk/article/17298/General-Election-2017|title=Result of General Election – Guildford|publisher=Guildford Borough Council|access-date=8 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109181000/https://www.guildford.gov.uk/article/17298/General-Election-2017|archive-date=9 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> ('']'' '''Turner'''; born 3 November 1955) is a British former politician and lobbyist<ref name=":0" /><!-- For those unfamiliar, PLMR, the firm Milton works for, stands for "Political Lobbying and Media Relations"

from "about us" on LinkedIn:

*Lobbying and Public Affairs*
We draw on the experience of former MPs, candidates and advisers, local authority councillors and public affairs experts, to help you navigate the parliamentary process and ensure your message resonates and your campaign wins

https://ph.linkedin.com/company/political-lobbying-and-media-relations-plmr-

adding inline citations for what the firm does and her role in it would be excessive, leaving this note to save time for future editors.
--> who served as ] from 2017 to 2019. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for ] from ] to ]. Elected as a ], she had the ] and subsequently sat as an ].

==Early life and career==
Anne Frances Turner was born on 3 November 1955 in ], England to Patrick and Nesta Turner.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-45654|publisher=Oxford University Press|title=Milton, Anne|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U45654|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4|access-date=11 February 2018|edition=Who's Who, online}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://feweek.co.uk/2017/06/13/who-is-anne-milton-11-facts-about-the-skills-minister/|title=Who is Anne Milton? 11 facts about the new skills minister|publisher=FE Week|date=13 June 2017|last=Robertson|first=Alix}}</ref> She attended ] in ]. She trained as a nurse at ] in London and obtained a diploma in district nursing from the ]. Milton worked for the ] for 25 years as a nurse which included working in primary care, research and supporting ] nurses.<ref name=Back>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/sep/30/anne-milton-frontline-mental-health|title=Back to the frontline|work=The Guardian|date=30 September 2009|last=O'Hara|first=Mary}}</ref><ref name=Polbio>{{cite web|url=http://www.politics.co.uk/reference/anne-frances-milton|title=Anne Milton|publisher=politics.co.uk|access-date=8 January 2018}}</ref> During the 1980s, she was a ] for the ].<ref name=Back/>

Milton was a councillor for the Borough of ] from 1999 to 2004 and was Conservative Group leader on the council from 2000 to 2003 and a member of the ].<ref name=Back/><ref name=Polbio/> She applied to go on the Conservative Party's list of Parliamentary candidates in 1999 and was shortlisted in the selections for ] and for ] but was not selected for a seat for the ].{{Citation needed|date=January 2018}}

==Parliamentary career==
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Milton was selected to contest the ] parliamentary constituency in the 2005 general election, a seat which the Conservatives had unexpectedly lost in ] to the ] ] with the constituency becoming a marginal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/news/vote2001/low/english/newsid_1373000/1373499.stm|title=Battering continues for Tories in South|work=BBC News|date=8 June 2001}}</ref> She was elected as the MP for Guildford at the ] with a margin of victory of 347 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/england/4519707.stm|title=Tories complete Surrey full house|work=BBC News|date=6 May 2005}}</ref>


After the election, she was appointed to the ] serving till December 2006. During the 2005–2010 parliament, Milton worked as the Shadow Minister for Tourism from November 2006<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6125858.stm|title=Jenkin axed in Cameron reshuffle|work=BBC News|date=8 November 2006}}</ref> and then the Shadow Minister for Health in July 2007.<ref name=UKParl>{{cite web|url=https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/anne-milton/1523|title=Rt Hon Anne Milton MP|access-date=8 January 2018|publisher=parliament.uk}}</ref> In February 2006, Milton was among a minority of Conservative MPs to oppose exceptions for private clubs from the proposed ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4714660.stm|title=In full: How MPs voted|work=BBC News|date=14 February 2006}}</ref> Milton had previously announced her opposition to a partial ban, stating it was "the worst possible solution".<ref>Ben Russell, "", ''The Independent'', 20 December 2005</ref>
Milton was educated at ] Grammar School in ]. She later trained as a ] at ] in London and worked for the ] for 25 years, as a ] and for people with terminal cancer. Her husband, Dr Graham Henderson, also works in the NHS in the field of community medicine. In November 2006, she was appointed Shadow Minister for Tourism. <ref name="BBC"></ref>


Milton held her seat in the ] and increased her majority to 7,782 votes (14%).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/b91.stm|work=BBC News|access-date=8 January 2018|title=Guildford}}</ref> In July 2010, Milton suggested that doctors should describe ] patients as 'fat' to encourage them to take responsibility for their condition. This was criticised by campaigners who pointed out that a clinical definition was being replaced with a subjective, pejorative term.<ref>Randeep Ramdesh, "", ''The Guardian'', 28 July 2010</ref>
==Political experience==
Milton was a councillor in the Borough of ] 1999 – 2004 and led the Conservative Group on the council. She was a member of the ] and Vice Chairman of the Conservative Medical Society. She applied to go on the Conservative Party's list of Parliamentary candidates in 1999, and was rated highly by the party. In the selection for ] in August 2000 and at Bridgwater, she was among the three finallists but lost out narrowly and did not find another seat for the ].


During the 2010–2015 parliament, she served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the ],<ref name="No10Website"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100517223253/http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/latest-news/2010/05/her-majestys-government-49840 |date=17 May 2010 }}. Number 10 (19 May 2010). Retrieved on 13 March 2012.</ref> then, as a result of a ministerial reshuffle in September 2012, Milton was appointed a Government Whip (]), ] and later ].<ref name=UKParl/> “You have to know the MPs very well,” Milton said of her time in the Whips' Office. “If you’re working successfully, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you can avoid a rebellion but you should always be able to predict a vote spot-on, or at the very worst one or two out.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.politico.eu/article/boris-johnson-partygate-troubles-put-partwhips-spotlight/|title=Boris Johnson's Partygate troubles put parliament whips in the spotlight|date=27 January 2022|website=Politico.eu|access-date=9 February 2022}}</ref>
==Guildford==
In 2002 Milton was selected for ], a seat which the Conservatives had unexpectedly lost in 2001 to the ]. This was one of the first selections to be made and Milton stood out not only because few women had been selected. Her connection to health care, an area in which the Conservatives felt weak, and her lack of interest in issues such as British membership of the ] and asylum-seekers, meant that she was thought of as a member of the modernising wing of the Conservative Party.


She abstained on ] in February 2013 citing a lack of consensus amongst her constituents.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/gay-marriage---anne-milton-4720517|title=Gay marriage – Anne Milton letter to {{sic|consi|tuents|nolink=y}}|publisher=Get Surrey|date=7 February 2013}}</ref> In March 2015, she was appointed to the ] and therefore granted the title ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Privy Council appointments: March 2015|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/privy-council-appointments-march-2015|website=Press release|publisher=Prime Minister's Office|access-date=13 March 2015|date=12 March 2015}}</ref> She voted for the United Kingdom to remain with the European Union (EU) in ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36618907|title=EU referendum: Surrey's mixed vote 'reflects divisions'|work=BBC News|date=24 June 2016}}</ref> Milton was re-elected as MP for Guildford in ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/general-election-anne-milton-holds-13159955|title=General Election: Anne Milton holds Guildford seat for Conservative Party|publisher=Get Surrey|date=12 June 2017|last=Smith|first=Joshua}}</ref> Following the election, she was selected as the ] and the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/anne-milton|title=The Rt Hon Anne Milton MP|website=Parliament.uk|access-date=8 January 2018}}</ref>
Following Conservative leader ]'s 2003 conference speech, Milton was interviewed in the '']'' newspaper published in Glasgow. She stated that the priority she heard from the people of Guildford was crime, but lamented the poor press reaction to Duncan Smith's speech. After Duncan Smith was defeated in a vote of confidence among Conservative MPs, she immediately backed ] as the new leader; following his election, she played host to his wife Sandra on a campaign trip to Guildford.


On 23 October 2018, Milton resigned from the Commons Reference Group on Representation and Inclusion, chaired by Commons speaker ], citing incompetence in Bercow's ability to tackle bullying and sexual harassment problems in Parliament.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2018/oct/23/theresa-may-briefs-cabinet-on-brexit-negotiations-politics-live|title=Theresa May briefs cabinet on Brexit negotiations – politics live|first1=Jessica |last1=Elgot|first2=Frances|last2=Perraudin|first3=Alexandra Topping|last3=(earlier)|first4=Jessica|last4=Elgot|first5=Jessica|last5=Elgot|first6=Lisa|last6=O'Carroll|date=23 October 2018|access-date=23 October 2018|work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/john-bercow-speaker-house-of-commons-staff-bullying-will-quince-mims-davies-anne-milton-quit-a8598046.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/john-bercow-speaker-house-of-commons-staff-bullying-will-quince-mims-davies-anne-milton-quit-a8598046.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Pressure on John Bercow after three Tory MPs resign from Commons committee he chairs|work=The Independent|access-date=23 October 2018|date=23 October 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/10/23/john-bercow-thrust-back-spotlight-westminster-bullying-three/|title=John Bercow thrust back into spotlight over Westminster bullying as three Government members quit his committee|first=Harry|last=Yorke|date=23 October 2018|access-date=23 October 2018|newspaper=The Telegraph}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-45953183|title=MPs quit group because Bercow chairs it|date=23 October 2018|access-date=23 October 2018|work=BBC News}}</ref>
==General election==
There was a good deal of interest in the result at Guildford in the ], prompted not only by the fact that the seat was highly marginal but also by the rare phenomenon of two women candidates contesting for the victory. Milton highlighted Conservative plans to abolish regional planning bodies and reduce the amount of new housing built in the area, especially on green field sites. The then sitting Liberal Democrat MP highlighted the fact that Milton lived outside the constituency in ], prompting Milton to respond that "It isn't in ]!"


On 23 July 2019, Milton resigned as Minister of State for Skills and Apprenticeships shortly before ] was announced as the new leader of the Conservative Party and, thus, Prime Minister. She said that she could not serve in a government which said there was a possibility of the UK leaving the ] with no deal.<ref>{{cite news|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49078864|title=Johnson and Hunt await Tory leadership result|date=23 July 2019|access-date=23 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/23/boris-johnson-elected-new-tory-leader-prime-minister|work=The Guardian|title=Boris Johnson elected new Tory leader|date=23 July 2019|last=Stewart|first=Heather}}</ref> She had the ] and subsequently sat as an ]. She stood for re-election in the ] as an independent and lost to the Conservative candidate ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/marsden-and-milton-lose-seats-general-election|work=TES|title=Marsden and Milton lose seats in general election|date=13 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-61748062|title=Guildford MP Angela Richardson says Boris Johnson has lost public trust|date=10 June 2022|work=BBC News}}</ref>
Some attention during the campaign was paid to a ] set up by Guildford resident ] who was opposed to Milton. He pointed to her use of photographs of Conservative activists in her election literature that appeared to represent ordinary voters without party political interest. He has also questioned her performance on the Health ]. <ref name="bloggerheads"></ref> Milton refuses to discuss the weblog and once dismissed the author as "an angry young man". <ref name="Times"></ref>


==Post-political career==
In 2021, Milton joined ] as an associate.<ref>{{cite web|title=Advice letter: Anne Milton, Associate, KPMG International Limited|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/milton-anne-minister-of-state-for-apprenticeships-and-skills-department-for-education-acoba-advice/advice-letter-anne-milton-associate-kpmg-international-limited |website=gov.uk|access-date=14 December 2022}}</ref> In 2022, Milton joined lobbying firm PLMR as an advisor.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=PLMR Strengthens Public Affairs Advisory Bench With Two Hires |url=https://www.provokemedia.com/latest/article/plmr-strengthens-public-affairs-advisory-bench-with-two-hires |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=PRovoke Media |language=en}}</ref>


==Parliament== ==Personal life==
She married her first husband Neil Milton in 1979 in Haywards Heath; the couple later divorced.{{Citation needed|date=January 2018}} Her second husband, Dr Graham Henderson, whom she married in February 2000 in Surrey,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/disorder-disorder-9clhbrnn2hq|title=Disorder, disorder!|date=3 February 2008|work=The Sunday Times|access-date=13 June 2019|issn=0956-1382}}</ref> is a former local medical director at ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lgcplus.com/home/staff-keep-nhs-pensions-as-virgins-surrey-deal-goes-through/5043774.article|work=Local Government Chronicle|title=Staff keep NHS pensions as Virgin's Surrey deal goes through|date=12 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://uk.linkedin.com/in/graham-henderson-22461820|title=Graham Henderson|publisher=Linkedin|access-date=29 July 2018}}</ref> Milton lives in Surrey and has four children,<ref name=Polbio/> one of whom is yachtswoman ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/28/female-skipper-sails-history-youngest-finish-world-race/|title=Female skipper sails into history as youngest to finish world race|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=28 July 2018|last=Adams|first=Joel}}</ref>
On election day, Milton won by 347 votes, after two recounts. In Parliament she was swiftly appointed to the Health ]. She announced her backing for ] in the Conservative Party leadership election on ], ], becoming the 29th Conservative MP to support him. She offered herself as a candidate for the ] executive in January 2006 but was not elected.


==Notes==
In February 2006, Milton was among a minority of Conservative MPs to oppose exceptions for private clubs from the proposed ]. The next month, she was the first Conservative MP to sign an ] tabled by Labour MP ] calling for fake fur to be used in the bearskin hats worn by some regiments of the ]. <ref name="EDM"></ref>
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British Independent politician

The Right HonourableAnne Milton
Official portrait, 2017
Minister of State for Skills and Apprenticeships
In office
12 June 2017 – 23 July 2019
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded byRobert Halfon
Succeeded byGillian Keegan
Minister for Women
In office
12 June 2017 – 8 January 2018
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded byNicky Morgan
Succeeded byVictoria Atkins
Deputy Chief Government Whip
Treasurer of the Household
In office
11 May 2015 – 12 June 2017
Prime Minister
Preceded byGreg Hands
Succeeded byJulian Smith
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
In office
14 July 2014 – 11 May 2015
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byDesmond Swayne
Succeeded byKris Hopkins
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
In office
4 September 2012 – 14 July 2014
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byAngela Watkinson
Succeeded byGavin Barwell
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health
In office
11 May 2010 – 4 September 2012
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byGillian Merron
Succeeded byAnna Soubry
Member of Parliament
for Guildford
In office
5 May 2005 – 6 November 2019
Preceded bySue Doughty
Succeeded byAngela Richardson
Personal details
BornAnne Frances Turner
(1955-11-03) 3 November 1955 (age 69)
Sussex, England
Political partyIndependent (2019–present)
Other political
affiliations		Conservative (2005–2019)
Spouses
Neil Milton ​ ​(m. 1979, divorced)​
Graham Henderson ​(m. 2000)​
Children4, including Nikki Henderson
Alma mater
WebsiteOfficial website

Anne Frances Milton (née Turner; born 3 November 1955) is a British former politician and lobbyist who served as Minister of State for Skills and Apprenticeships from 2017 to 2019. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Guildford from 2005 to 2019. Elected as a Conservative, she had the whip removed in September 2019 and subsequently sat as an independent politician.

Early life and career

Anne Frances Turner was born on 3 November 1955 in Sussex, England to Patrick and Nesta Turner. She attended Haywards Heath Grammar School in West Sussex. She trained as a nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and obtained a diploma in district nursing from the London South Bank University. Milton worked for the NHS for 25 years as a nurse which included working in primary care, research and supporting palliative care nurses. During the 1980s, she was a shop steward for the Royal College of Nursing.

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. She 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.

Parliamentary career

Milton as a Whip

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. She was elected as the MP for Guildford at the 2005 general election with a margin of victory of 347 votes.

After the election, she was appointed to the Health Select Committee serving till December 2006. During the 2005–2010 parliament, Milton worked as the Shadow Minister for Tourism from November 2006 and then the Shadow Minister for Health in July 2007. In February 2006, Milton was among a minority of Conservative MPs to oppose exceptions for private clubs from the proposed Smoking ban in England. Milton had previously announced her opposition to a partial ban, stating it was "the worst possible solution".

Milton held her seat in the 2010 general election and increased her majority to 7,782 votes (14%). In July 2010, Milton suggested that doctors should describe obese patients as 'fat' to encourage them to take responsibility for their condition. This was criticised by campaigners who pointed out that a clinical definition was being replaced with a subjective, pejorative term.

During the 2010–2015 parliament, she served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of Health, then, as a result of a ministerial reshuffle in September 2012, Milton was appointed a Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury), Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and later Treasurer of the Household. “You have to know the MPs very well,” Milton said of her time in the Whips' Office. “If you’re working successfully, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you can avoid a rebellion but you should always be able to predict a vote spot-on, or at the very worst one or two out.”

She abstained on the parliamentary vote on the legalisation of same sex marriage in February 2013 citing a lack of consensus amongst her constituents. In March 2015, she was appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and therefore granted the title The Right Honourable. She voted for the United Kingdom to remain with the European Union (EU) in the June 2016 membership referendum. Milton was re-elected as MP for Guildford in the 2017 snap general election. Following the election, she was selected as the Minister of State for Skills and Apprenticeships and the Minister for Women.

On 23 October 2018, Milton resigned from the Commons Reference Group on Representation and Inclusion, chaired by Commons speaker John Bercow, citing incompetence in Bercow's ability to tackle bullying and sexual harassment problems in Parliament.

On 23 July 2019, 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. She 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. She had the whip removed in September 2019 and subsequently sat as an independent politician. She stood for re-election in the 2019 general election as an independent and lost to the Conservative candidate Angela Richardson.

Post-political career

In 2021, Milton joined KPMG as an associate. In 2022, Milton joined lobbying firm PLMR as an advisor.

Personal life

She married her first husband Neil Milton in 1979 in Haywards Heath; the couple later divorced. Her second husband, Dr Graham Henderson, whom she married in February 2000 in Surrey, is a former local medical director at Virgin Healthcare. Milton lives in Surrey and has four children, one of whom is yachtswoman Nikki Henderson.

Notes

  1. Office vacant between 9 April 2014 and 12 June 2017.
  2. As Minister of State.

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  13. "Guildford". BBC News. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  14. Randeep Ramdesh, "'Doctors should tell people they are fat, not obese, minister says'", The Guardian, 28 July 2010
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  19. "EU referendum: Surrey's mixed vote 'reflects divisions'". BBC News. 24 June 2016.
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