Anne Marie Bates Clarke is an American-born British Labour Party politician who became the London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden in 2021.
[4] In 2021, Clarke was elected as the London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden, and re-elected in 2024.
She has also fought for firefighters' pay and conditions to ensure the London Fire Brigade has enough staff, advocating for staff throughout the Brigade's Culture Review and "engage" process, colloquially known as being in "special measures", which started in 2022 and concluded in 2024.
[6] Clarke has campaigned for better regulation of lithium-ion batteries,[7] obtaining data showing that they cause a fire every two days in London.
Clarke chaired the Assembly's Fire, Resilience and Emergency Planning Committee throughout 2022/23 and 2023/24.