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The daughter of the former left wing Labour MP for Preston South , Ron Atkins , Atkins was educated at the Colchester County High School, and is a graduate of the London School Of Economics . She joined the Labour Party in 1965. She worked as a community relations officer with the Luton Community Research Council. She worked in the Trade Union Movement, for four years she was a researcher with the UCATT union she worked as a press officer for UNISON and COHSE before becoming a Member of Parliament in 1997 . In 1982 she was elected as a councillor in the London Borough Of Wandsworth , and was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Group from 1983-1986. In 1990 she unsuccessfully contested the Parliamentary By-election at Eastbourne caused by the murder of the Conservative MP Ian Gow by the Provisional IRA . She entered Parliament at the 1997 General Election in the Labour landslide as the Member of Parliament for Staffordshire Moorlands, a seat held previously by David Knox , and which had been Conservative for 27 years. After the 2001 General Election she was appointed a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Foreign And Commonwealth Office . She was promoted to Tony Blair 's government as Parliamentary Under Secretary Of State at the Department Of Transport in 2004, but was dropped following the 2005 General Election . She was re-elected for a third term on 5 May 2005 in the British General Election for the constituency with a majority of 2,438. In July 2005 she became a member of the Parliamentary Health Select Committee and is the Vice-Chair of the All-Party Hill Farmers Group. She is a volunteer at the British Fluoridisation Society. She is married to Gus Brain and has one daughter, Emma. She wrote a book in 1981 with Chris Mullin called ''How to Select Your MP''. PUBLICATIONS
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