Candy Atherton obituary

Candy Atherton, the former Labour MP who has died suddenly aged 62, was an indomitable campaigner who spent her life fighting inequality and injustice.When she won the marginal seat of Falmouth and Camborne in 1997, famously defeating the Conservative incumbent, Sebastian Coe, she became the first Labour MP in Cornwall since 1970 and the first woman MP in the county since 1920.During her eight years in the House of Commons she helped persuade the Labour government to pursue “Objective One&