Charlotte Nichols is the Labour MP for Warrington North, having first been elected to Parliament in 2019 with a majority of 1,509.
Warrington North is the safer of the two Labour constituencies in Warrington, and this area between Manchester and Liverpool, has remained loyal to Labour ever since the second Word War. This seat was previously represented in Parliament by Doug Hoyle, the father of the current House of Commons Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle.
Born in 1991, Charlotte Nichols was educated at Liverpool University, and worked as a trade union researcher for the shop-workers union USDAW, and then for the GMB trade union, before becoming an MP.
She served as Shadow minister for Women and Equalities between November 2020 and September 2021.
Considered to be on the left of the Labour Party, she worked on Jeremy Corbyn’s 2015 and 2016 leadership campaigns.
She enjoys watching football, rugby league, and is an active runner.
She converted to Reform Judaism at the age of 27, and is a Jewish Parliamentarian. After becoming an MP she was forced to justify an early Tweet in which she had suggested a collection of Lazio football fans who had been filmed in Glasgow making Nazi salutes should ‘get their heads kicked in’. Nichols responded saying, “As a Jewish person whose grandfather fought in World War Two, ultimately sometimes I believe that fascism has to be physically confronted”.
In a 2021 article in Vogue, she also identified as bi-sexual.
She is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on the Future of Retail, Nuclear Energy, on Religion in the Media, Hydrogen and the Isle of Man. She is Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Pubs.
In late 2021, Nichols was at the centre of media reports which linked her to a number of MPs who had got drunk on a parliamentary trip to Gibraltar. Ms Nichols who allegedly had to be transported from the flight in a wheelchair denied the incident got out of hand and stated that the alcohol had reacted to her medication.
Email – charlotte.nichols.mp@parliament.uk
Website – charlottenicholsmp.com
Twitter – @charlotte2153
