Anne Jenkin, Baroness Jenkin of Kennington

Anne Caroline Jenkin, Baroness Jenkin of Kennington ( Strutt; born 8 December 1955) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords.

Political career Jenkin stood for election as a Member of Parliament in Glasgow Provan in the 1987 general election. In 2005, she co-founded Women2Win with Theresa May, a campaign to increase the number of female Conservative MPs. She is currently its co-chair with Mark Harper. She hired the director of Women2Win, Charlotte Carew Pole, to serve on her parliamentary staff.

She co-founded the Conservative Friends of International Development in 2011.

She was created a life peer on 26 January 2011 as Baroness Jenkin of Kennington, of Hatfield Peverel in the County of Essex. She was introduced to the House of Lords on 27 January 2011, where she sits on the Conservative benches.

In 2013, she spoke in favour of equal marriage. At the publication press conference on 8 December, she said that the report found that one cause of the rise of hunger and food bank use in the UK was because, "We [as a society] have lost a lot of our cooking skills, and poor people don't know how to cook." Later that day, in another interview about the report's launch, she apologised for the remark, saying she was speaking without a script and had made a mistake:

In January 2018, Jenkin criticised what she claimed was language used by constituents to describe candidates during the 2017 general election. In the debate on social media regulation in the House of Lords, Jenkin claimed that a candidate had been referred to as a "fucking Tory cunt". Jenkin said: "During the election campaign in June, the Ealing Central and Acton Conservative candidate was met daily outside her home by a large group of Momentum and Labour activists yelling at her, and I quote—and please, my Lords, forgive the unparliamentary language and block your ears if you are sensitive or easily offended—“Fucking Tory cunt”. This young woman has a young child. How can this be acceptable?" In 2022, The Daily Telegraph reported that, with fellow "gender critical" parliamentarians Rosie Duffield and Joanna Cherry she was setting up a cross-party "biology policy unit", "to help ensure policies across the public sector that are based on gender identity theory are documented and scrutinised". In 2023, she criticized the Lord Chancellor's decision to recognize Matilda Simon, a transgender woman, as the 3rd Baron Simon of Wythenshawe.

Other roles In 2016, Jenkin became founding chancellor of Writtle University College, on its achieving university college status. The college is in Essex and specialises in agricultural and horticultural courses.

In 2017, Jenkin was chair of the Centre for Social Justice Off the Scales working group on childhood obesity in England.

Personal life Since 1988, she has been married to the Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Bernard Jenkin, whose father was the Conservative life peer The Lord Jenkin of Roding. Jenkin and her husband have two sons.

She separated from her husband in 2023.