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Pam Cox
Pamela Margaret Cox is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Colchester since 2024. BiographyPamela Cox was brought up in Southend. Her mother was a midwife before becoming a nurse. Her father left school at the age of 15 and was apprenticed as a joiner before joining the church and becoming a minister. She has two sisters, both of whom became nurses in south Essex.[1] Cox studied history at Robinson College, Cambridge,[2] and in 1997 was awarded a PhD for a thesis on the history of girls' delinquency in Britain.[3] Prior to her election as an MP, she was a professor of social history and criminology at the University of Essex, and has been a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts since 2017. She presented the BBC documentary series, Shopgirls: The True Story of Life Behind the Counter and Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs, and has contributed to historical and cultural programmes for Channel 4 and Channel 5 including Edwardian Britain in Colour.[3] PoliticsIn 1994, Cox joined the Labour Party.[4] She has been a New Town and Christ Church councillor since May 2021, and on 5 November 2022 she became the Labour Party prospective parliamentary candidate in the 2024 general election for Colchester.[5][6][7] Upon her election to parliament, she became the first female MP to represent the constituency.[8] In November 2024, Cox voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which proposes to legalise assisted suicide.[9] Works
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