Amanda Hack is the Labour MP for North West Leicestershire, having first been elected to parliament at the 2024 general election.

In the 2024 general election, Hack received 16,871 votes (34.7%). The Conservative candidate, Craig Smith, received 15,859 votes (32.7%), while the Reform UK candidate, Noel Matthews, secured 9,678 votes (19.9%). Hack was elected with a majority of 1,012 votes.

The North West Leicestershire constituency is located in the East Midlands region of England. The constituency was created in 1983.

North West Leicestershire has been a bellwether seat since its creation, consistently electing an MP from the party that formed the government. It was held by the Conservatives from 1983-1997, by Labour from 1997-2010, and by the Conservatives from 2010-2024.

Hack’s immediate predecessor as the MP for North West Leicestershire was Andrew Bridgen, who was first elected as a Conservative in 2010 before joining the short-lived Reclaim Party and later sitting as an independent. Bridgen also stood in the 2024 election, winning 1,568 votes (3.2%).

Political Career

Hack serves as a parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to the leader of the House of Commons (since March 2026). A PPS acts as an unpaid parliamentary assistant, providing a link between the senior frontbencher and backbench MPs. The role is widely regarded as the first step on the ministerial ladder. Although they cannot speak for the government in debates, a PPS is bound by collective responsibility and becomes part of the so-called “payroll vote”, expected to support the official line in all divisions.

Hack is a member of the House of Commons work and pensions select committee (since October 2024) – the committee responsible for scrutinising the policies and spending of the Department for Work and Pensions and associated bodies.

In May 2026, Hack was among the over 100 Labour MPs who signed a joint statement insisting it was “no time for a leadership contest.” The letter was an intervention in the political crisis engulfing Keir Starmer’s premiership, after Labour suffered heavy losses in the 2026 local elections and devolved elections to the Scottish Parliament and Senedd Cymru. It was organised as a counterweight to a mounting rebellion that had seen high-profile figures, including some ministers, call for Starmer’s resignation.

The statement read: “Last week we had a devastatingly tough set of election results. It shows we have a hard job ahead to win back trust from the electorate.

“That job needs to start today – with all of us working together to deliver the change the country needs.

“We must focus on that. This is no time for a leadership contest.”

Hack is listed as a member of the all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs) for food and drink (co-chair) and cardiac risk in the young (chair).

Hack delivered her maiden speech on 28 October 2024 during a debate on remembrance and veterans.

In it, she said: “As with our coal heritage, North West Leicestershire’s fingerprints are all over the rail industry.

“It is perhaps ironic that my constituency has no passenger rail service at all, even though the manufacturer Siemens completed the signalling work for the Elizabeth line from its base in the constituency. One of my major goals in this House is to get the Ivanhoe line back running for passengers.”

She added: “During my time in this House, I hope to be an action woman – someone who adds to our North West Leicestershire bag with cleaner waterways, better public services for all and, most importantly, an anytime day return ticket on the Ivanhoe line.”

Before entering parliament, Hack was elected as a Labour councillor on Leicestershire County Council in 2017. She stood down from the council in 2025, having served for a period as leader of the Labour group.

Political Views

Leadership elections

Labour deputy leadership 2025: Hack was one of 117 Labour MPs who nominated Lucy Powell for the party’s deputy leadership in September 2025. The election followed the resignation of Angela Rayner, who stepped down as deputy prime minister and deputy party leader after an investigation into her tax affairs. It marked the first time since 2007 that Labour had held a deputy leadership contest while in government.

Powell, the former leader of the House of Commons, was seen as a candidate representing the party’s “soft left”; she was supported by leading soft left figures including Ed Miliband and Andy Burnham. She secured 117 nominations from the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), above the 80 required, and went on to win the election – defeating Bridget Phillipson with 54.3% of the vote.

Factional identity and party tradition

Get Britain Working Group: Hack has been listed as a member of the Get Britain Working Group of Labour MPs – a caucus supportive of the Starmer leadership’s position on welfare. The group argues for a “new social contract built on employment and opportunity”, focusing on the rising number of people out of the workforce due to long-term sickness.

In an open letter, issued upon the group’s founding in March 2025, the group expressed its support for the government’s welfare measures set out in the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill. The bill was subject to a significant revolt of over 120 Labour MPs – which forced ministers into a series of concessions shortly before its first vote in the House of Commons.

Ahead of the bill’s fraught second reading debate, the MPs wrote: “Our Labour values are built on a simple but powerful idea: that every individual, regardless of background or circumstance, should have the support they need to make the most of their lives.

“Everyone who is capable of working deserves the security, dignity and agency that employment offers. Of course, there are some people who are not able to work and they must be treated with compassion and respect. But for those that can, we must restore the pathways to opportunity which are currently so sparse for millions of people.

“It is exactly what a Labour government exists to do.”

Labour Rural Research Group: Hack has been listed as a member of the Labour Rural Research Group (LRRG) – a caucus made up of MPs representing Labour’s so-called “rural wall”. Launched in August 2025, the group’s primary aim is to ensure that policy is developed with a clear understanding of the distinct challenges and priorities of rural and semi-rural communities.

The LRRG, chaired by the Suffolk Coastal MP Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, conducts research and consultations to challenge what it sees as a “rural blind spot” in Whitehall.

Its first report, “Understanding Rural Britain”, surveyed voters on issues from healthcare and the economy to housing and the environment, seeking to build an evidence-based policy platform. The survey found nearly three quarters (74.4%) of respondents believe rural communities had been overlooked over the past 15 years. On the back of the report, Riddell-Carpenter stated that using the labelling rural voters as Nimbys (not in my back yard) was “toxic” and maintained “many people rightly despise the term”.

Living Standards Coalition: Hack is a member of the Living Standards Coalition. Established in July 2025, the group’s stated aim was to develop and promote policy ideas that directly reduce everyday costs for households, particularly in areas such as food, energy, housing and childcare. In an open letter published upon its founding, addressed to Keir Starmer, the MPs wrote: “Our constituents will ask one question at the next election: did this Labour government make me better off?”

They added: “To raise living standards, we support government interventions that will help to increase incomes and lower costs.”

Welfare

Welfare ‘reasoned amendment’ (June 2025): Hack was also one of the over 120 Labour MPs to sign the reasoned amendment to the government’s flagship welfare bill which aimed to reject the proposed legislation.

The amendment, in the name of senior Labour MP Dame Meg Hillier, objected to the fact that the bill had not been subject to a “formal consultation with disabled people” and that “250,000 people will be pushed into poverty” as a result of it, according to a government impact assessment.

The motion also called on the government to wait for the publication of the review into the Personal Independence Payment (Pip), helmed by minister Sir Stephen Timms, and the independent review, conducted by Sir Charlie Mayfield, into how the employment of disabled people could be boosted.

Welfare vote (July 2025): Hack voted in favour of the government’s flagship welfare bill at second reading. The vote came after ministers agreed to significant concessions to avoid defeat via a mass rebellion of Labour MPs on 1 July 2025.

In a statement at the time, Hack said that she “shared many of the concerns raised with me by disabled people over recent months, and those of local organisations that I have met. I too have been worried about these reforms and that they risked harming vulnerable members of our society.”

She added: “It was clear from the debate in the chamber that the government has listened to our calls to wait for any implementation of PIP reform until after the review which is being undertaken by Sir Stephen Timms (referred to as The Timms Review), which will be taken in conjunction with disabled people and organisations, ensuring their voice is at the heart of any changes.

“This means that there will be no changes to PIP as a result of this bill.”

Assisted dying

Hack voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, better known as the assisted dying bill, at second reading (November 2024). However, she went on to vote against the bill at third reading (June 2025).

Hack was one of 14 MPs to oppose the bill at third reading having supported it at second reading.

In a statement setting out her position, issued after the bill’s third reading, Hack said: “I have been consistent in my view, I am not against assisted dying in principle.

“However, I wanted to see appropriate protections in place for vulnerable people. I also feel that people need and deserve dignity in dying, and this should include making sure there is good palliative care.”

Social values and conscience issues

Abortion decriminalisation (2025): Hack voted in favour of 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.

Palestine

Palestinian recognition letter (July 2025): In July 2025, Hack was among the over 254 MPs to sign a cross-party letter calling for the government to immediately recognise the state of Palestine. The letter called on the prime minister and foreign secretary to recognise Palestine at the UN Conference then taking place in New York.

Before Politics

Born Amanda Jayne Hack in July 1976 in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, she moved to Leicester to attend De Montfort University, where she studied business (1994-1998).

Hack worked for Asra Housing Group, a housing association, where she held the role of head of community regeneration.

Personal Life

Hack lives in her North West Leicestershire constituency.

Trivia

Hack regained North West Leicestershire for Labour at the 2024 general election after it had been held by the Conservatives for 14 years.