Nadia Whittome is the Labour MP for Nottingham East,having first been elected to Parliament in 2019 with a majority of 17,393 over the Conservative Party.
Nottingham East is the most deprived and ethnically diverse of the three Nottingham constituencies, with a sixth of the electorate said to be of Asian descent and a tenth being black voters. The seat has one of the highest student populations in the UK, and home ownership is at one of the lowest levels in the East Midlands.
Elected to Westminster at the age of 23, Nadia Whittome is the “Baby of the House” and is currently the youngest MP in the House of Commons.
In May 2021, Nadia Whittome detailed her intention, on doctors advice, to ‘take a step’ back from her work as an MP for a short period, to help her recover from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Whittome famously pledged to take a worker’s wage of £35,000 as an MP, and to donate the remainder of her MPs salary (which would come otherwise come in at £82,000) to charity.
Having been brought up in Nottingham, Whittome studied law at Nottingham University. She worked as a hate crime project worker and as a carer, before becoming an MP.
Already an articulate media performer, Whittome is positioned on the hard left of the Labour Party. A member of Momentum, at Westminster, she is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs.
In March 2020, Whittome returned to her previous care worker job at Lark Hill retirement village in the Clifton area of Nottingham, so as to help with the Coronavirus pandemic response. She pledged to donate her salary from the work to the local Covid 19 support fund.
In May 2022, Whittome wrote, that parliament was ‘institutionally sexist’ detailing how, “In conversations with male MPs, I regularly notice them talking to my chest rather than my face”.
At Westminster she is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on School Food, and Textiles and Fashion. She was vigorously opposed to Brexit.
Email – nadia.whittome.mp@parliament.uk
Website – nadiawhittome.org
Twitter – @NadiaWhittome
