Annette Brooke
Dame Annette Brooke | |
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Brooke at the 2009 Liberal Democrat Spring Conference | |
| Chair of the Liberal Democrats Parliamentary Party | |
| In office 5 June 2013 – 30 March 2015 | |
| Leader | Nick Clegg |
| Preceded by | Paul Burstow |
| Succeeded by | Lisa Smart |
| Member of Parliament for Mid Dorset and North Poole | |
| In office 7 June 2001 – 30 March 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Christopher Fraser |
| Succeeded by | Michael Tomlinson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Annette Lesley Kelly 7 June 1947 Essex, England |
| Died | 20 August 2025 (aged 78) Poole, Dorset, England |
| Party | Liberal Democrats |
| Spouse | Michael Brooke |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics Hughes Hall, Cambridge |
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Dame Annette Lesley Brooke (née Kelley; 7 June 1947 – 20 August 2025) was a British Liberal Democrat politician. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Dorset and North Poole from the 2001 general election to 2015. In 2001, she became the first female MP elected in a general election in Dorset. At the time she left office, Brooke was the longest serving female MP in the history of the Liberal Democrats.
As of 2024, she and fellow Liberal Democrats, Diana Maddock and Vikki Slade, and Labour's Jessica Toale, are the only women to date who represented parliamentary constituencies in Dorset.