Vicky Foxcroft was first elected as the Labour MP for Lewisham Deptford in 2015, being reelected in 2019 with a massive majority of 32,913.
Found towards the north of Lewisham, including the area around New Cross, Lewisham Deptford is the most deprived of the three Lewisham seats and has long been a Labour Party stronghold. It now ranks as one of the party’s ten safest seats in the country. Ethnically diverse, the non white population in this constituency is close to two fifths of the electorate. The constituency has one of the lowest home ownership levels in the UK.
Foxcroft was appointed Shadow Minister for Disabled People in 2020, having previously served as the Shadow Minister for Civil Society. She was previously an Opposition Whip.
Born in 1977, Foxcroft was educated De Montford University. She then worked in the union movement, as a researcher for the AEEU, as a political officer for Amicus, and as a finance sector officer for Unite. She was a local councillor on Lewisham Council between 2010 and 2014.
She supported Owen Smith in his 2016 Labour leadership election challenge against Jeremy Corbyn, and nominated Lisa Nandy for the Labour leadership in 2020.
She is thought to have been the first person to ask a Parliamentary question in sign language, doing so in 2021 to raise the fact that sign language interpreters were not in place at the government’s televised press briefings.
In 2016, Foxcroft brough several members of the House of Commons to tears during a debate on stillbirths, as she described being pregnant at 16 and losing her baby after just five days.
Foxcroft is the Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Knife Crime, and Co-Chair on the All Party Group on votes at 16.
Email: vicky.foxcroft.mp@parliament.uk
Personal Website: http://www.lewishamdeptfordlabour.org.uk/
Twitter: @vickyfoxcroft
Facebook Personal: https://www.facebook.com/vicky.foxcroft.52
