Nadia Whittome

At just 23 years old, Nadia Whittome is, like her predecessor Chris Leslie, taking on the mantle of the “baby of the house.” She grew up in Nottingham and has described how seeing the damaging effect of the bedroom tax upon her community motivated her to get involved in politics in 2013. She worked as a parliamentary intern for Pat Glass (former shadow minister of state for Europe) during the 2016 referendum, and used her fluent French and German to meet with Labour’s sister parties in France, Germany, and Austria. She went on to study law at Nottingham, and has most recently been a project worker at Communities Inc. In addition to her media prominence as Britain’s youngest MP, Whittome drew attention for her pledge to donate over half of her parliamentary salary to her local community. She holds her seat with a 17,393 majority, is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group and sits on the Environmental Audit Committee. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she has worked part-time in a care home and in April 2020 became parliamentary private secretary to John Ashworth, shadow secretary of state for health and social care.