Jack Rankin is the Conservative MP for Windsor, having first been elected to parliament at the 2024 general election.

In the 2024 general election, Rankin won 16,483 votes, representing 36.4% of the vote. The Labour Party candidate, Pavitar Mann, received 10,026 votes (22.1%), while the Liberal Democrats candidate, Julian Peter Tisi, secured 9,539 votes (21.0%). Rankin was duly elected with a majority of 6,457 votes.  

The Windsor constituency is located in the county of Berkshire in South East England. It was re-established as a constituency in 1997, having previously been part of the Windsor and Maidenhead seat. The area is considered a Conservative stronghold. Rankin’s immediate predecessor MP for Windsor was Adam Afriyie, who represented the Conservative Party from 2005 until the 2024 general election.

Rankin is one of 26 new Conservative MPs that entered parliament in 2024.

Political Career

Rankin was appointed parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the opposition, as part of the shadow frontbench reshuffle conducted in August/September 2026. A PPS acts as an unpaid parliamentary assistant, providing a link between the senior frontbencher and backbench MPs.

Rankin served as PPS to the shadow education team on the Conservative frontbench from July 2025 to September 2026.

Rankin previously served as a PPS to the shadow justice team (2024-2025). During this time, he was seen as an ally of Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary. His move to the shadow education team was described by one commentator as an “attempt to clip Jenrick’s wings by the leader Kemi Badenoch”.

An October 2025 House magazine article described Rankin as a “Jenrickite”. In January 2026, following Jenrick’s defection to the Conservative Party, Rankin ruled out switching parties.

Rankin is also a member of the House of Commons Scottish affairs select committee (since October 2024) – the committee responsible for scrutinising the expenditure, administration and policies of the Scotland Office and its associated bodies. The committee also examines the wider UK government, assessing policies and legislation that are relevant to Scotland.

In October 2025, Rankin told the House magazine that the Conservative Party should bring forward a “Great Repeal Act” to remove the Human Rights Act, the Equality Act and the Climate Change Act from the statute books.

Rankin is listed as a member of the all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs) for birth trauma, events, semiconductors and SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) house builders.

Rankin delivered his maiden speech on 22 October 2024 during a debate on the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (status) Bill.

In it, he said: “We share a set of values with our Commonwealth kin: a belief in the rule of law, parliamentary democracy, freedom of speech, property rights, and innocent until proven guilty by a jury of our peers, all built on a shared constitutional heritage. I want to fight for those principles during my time in parliament…

“That concept – that taxation should be raised only with the consent of the community of the realm – should give the new government pause for thought.

“I recommend it as a good conservative instinct. In this House, those on the Treasury bench – the crown – should be cautious about levying taxation, especially if punitive or excessive, without gaining wide common counsel.”

He added: “Yes, we have a responsibility to our constituents today, but we also have the shared inheritance of our history and our great parliamentary democracy, and we all have a duty to uphold the great traditions of our past in order to safeguard its future.”

Before entering parliament, Rankin served as a councillor on the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council (2015-2019).  

Rankin previously stood unsuccessfully for parliament as the Conservative candidate for Ashton-under-Lyne in the 2017 general election and for Warwick and Leamington in the 2019 election.

Political views

Leadership elections

Tory leadership 2024: Rankin supported Robert Jenrick’s candidacy in the 2024 Conservative Party leadership election. The contest was triggered by the resignation of Rishi Sunak following the party’s defeat in the 2024 general election.

Jenrick, a former immigration minister, positioned himself on the right wing of the party, advocating for the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). He emerged as an early frontrunner, topping the first two parliamentary ballots. After reaching the final two, he was defeated in the membership vote by Kemi Badenoch, receiving 41,388 votes (43.5%) compared to Badenoch’s 53,806 (56.5%).

Factional identity and party tradition

Mass deportation: In May 2025, Rankin signed an early day motion (EDM) concerning the mass deportation of illegal migrants. The motion, tabled by the independent MP Rupert Lowe, expressed “grave concern at the continued presence of over one million illegal migrants in the United Kingdom”.

The EDM urged the government to “implement a comprehensive national strategy to identify, detain, and deport all individuals found to be residing in the United Kingdom illegally, and to ensure that such policies are backed by the necessary legislative, diplomatic, logistical and financial resources to restore confidence in the rule of law and the security of our borders.”

Brexit and Europe

Customs union vote (2025): In December 2025, Rankin voted against the UK-EU Customs Union (Duty to Negotiate) Bill. The bill, introduced under the 10-minute rule procedure by Liberal Democrat Europe spokesperson Al Pinkerton, sought to mandate the government to enter into negotiations with the European Union to establish a bespoke customs union.

Assisted dying

Rankin voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, better known as the assisted dying bill, at both second reading (November 2024) and third reading (June 2025).

Social values and conscience issues

Abortion decriminalisation (2025): Rankin voted against a backbench amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that sought to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales in June 2025. The amendment, which was passed by a majority of 242 votes, removed women from the threat of prosecution for ending a pregnancy at any stage. As an issue of conscience, MPs were allowed to vote according to their personal beliefs.

Before Politics

Rankin was born in Ashton-under-Lyne on 19 August 1992

He attended West Hill School and studied mathematics and physics at the University of Warwick, graduating in 2014. During his time at university, he served as chairman of the University of Warwick Conservative Association.  

Rankin worked for the energy company Centrica at their Windsor head office.

Personal Life

Rankin is married. He has two sons.

Trivia

Rankin was chairman of the Conservative Association while studying at the University of Warwick.