Celia Anne Barlow (born 28 September 1955) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hove from 2005 to 2010.
Barlow was born in Cardiff, Wales, and attended King Edward High School for Girls in Birmingham.
In 2000, she was selected to contest the safe Conservative seat of Chichester at the 2001 General Election and finished third, behind the winner Andrew Tyrie.
In November 2004 Ivor Caplin, the Labour MP for the very marginal Hove constituency, announced his retirement at the next election[3] and Celia Barlow was chosen to fight the seat through a controversial All-Women Shortlist.
[13] Barlow married the former BBC North America foreign correspondent and University of Hull-educated Sam Jaffa in August 1988 in Bromsgrove.