Jessica Asato

Jessica Asato
Islington Borough Councillor for St George's Ward
In office 6 May 2010 – 4 February 2013
Preceded by	Walter Burgess
Succeeded by	Kat Fletcher
Personal details
Born	Jessica Asato
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	University of Cambridge

Jessica Asato is a British Labour Party politician. She was selected in 2012 as the parliamentary candidate for Norwich North for the 2015 General Election. She was one of 15 Labour candidates each given financial support of £10,000 by Lord Matthew Oakeshott the former Liberal Democrat in January 2015.

In the May 2015 General Election Asato came second to Chloe Smith in the Norwich North constituency, having increased the Labour vote by 2% (Chloe Smith increased the Tory vote by more than 3%). The Greens (1.5%) and UKIP (9.3%) also increased their vote share - the Liberal Democrats were the only party to suffer a decrease (-13.9%) in the consitituency.

She grew up in Gorleston and Rollesby where she lived with and cared for her grandmother, who had serious health problems. She went to Flegg High School in Great Yarmouth. When she was 16 in 1997, she moved from Norfolk to live with her mother in London and went to Francis Holland School, an all-girls private school. She was a keen debater at Sixth Form level, reaching the semi-finals of the Oxford Union schools’ debate competition. She went to Cambridge to study law. She was quickly divorced from her first husband, Howard Dawber. Her second husband, journalist Gareth Butler, died of a heart attack in 2008. She married her third husband, Rob Chaplin, in 2014 and had a baby.

In 2009 she was ranked no 78 among the Top 100 most influential Left-wingers by the Daily Telegraph.

In 2010 she made The Independent's list of 10 names to watch, perhaps because she was "Social media lead" on David Miliband's leadership election campaign and was featured in the Total Politics video Make Your Mind Up (And Vote!) with Bucks Fizz and "famous political figures".

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