Becky Gittins is the Labour MP for Clwyd East, having first been elected to parliament at the 2024 general election.

In the 2024 general election, Gittins received 18,484 votes (38.7%). The Conservative candidate, James Davies, received 13,862 votes (29.0%), while the Reform UK candidate, Kirsty Walmsley, secured 7,626 votes (15.9%). Gittins was elected with a majority of 4,622 votes.  

The Clwyd East constituency is located in North Wales and was newly created ahead of the 2024 election. It was formed from parts of the former constituencies of Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Delyn and Vale of Clwyd.

James Davies, the Conservative candidate for Clwyd East in 2024, represented Vale of Clwyd in parliament from 2019 to 2024.

Political Career

Gittins serves as a parliamentary private secretary (PPS) in the Wales Office (since July 2024). 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.

In September 2025, Gittins introduced the Babies and infants (Allergy Guidance) Bill to parliament. It called for a review of allergy guidance relating to the feeding and weaning of babies and infants.

In October 2024, Gittins – who was diagnosed with peanut allergy aged seven – argued that adrenaline pens should be included in first aid kits on trains. She also backed the Natasha Allergy Research Foundation’s call for the creation of an “allergy tsar” to coordinate action on allergies in the UK.

Gittins stated that an allergy tsar could make “sure that across lots of areas, we’ve got a coordinated approach to making life easier for people with allergies”.

Gittins delivered her maiden speech on 5 September 2024 during a debate on the Great British Energy Bill.

In it, she said: “Whether it is supporting local businesses to thrive, improving public transport, keeping our communities safe, improving people’s rights at work or helping young people to fulfil their potential, I will do all I can for the people of Clwyd East”.

Before entering parliament, Gittins served as a Labour councillor on Coventry City Council from May 2019 until September 2023.

Political Views

Leadership elections

Labour deputy leadership 2025: Gittins was one of 175 Labour MPs who nominated Bridget Phillipson 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.

Phillipson, the serving education secretary, was widely viewed as the candidate favoured by Downing Street and the party leadership. She secured 175 nominations from the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), comfortably exceeding the 80 required to reach the final ballot. She was ultimately defeated by Lucy Powell.

Factional identity and party tradition

SERA: Gittins has been listed as a member of the Socialist Environment and Resources Association (SERA) – a socialist society affiliated with the Labour Party. Founded in 1973, SERA is the party’s official environmental campaign group. The organisation campaigns on a wide range of issues, including renewable energy, biodiversity, air quality and the transition to a green economy. SERA describes its member MPs as “champions for the environment”.

Welfare

Welfare vote (July 2025): Gittins 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.

Assisted dying

Gittins voted in favour of 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): Gittins 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.

Before Politics

Gittins grew up in Bagillt, North Wales, attending Flint High School and the Alun School. She studied at the University of Warwick, graduating in 2016.

Gittins was chair of the University of Warwick Labour Society from 2015 to 2016.

She worked as an industrial official at the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), bargaining mainly in the aviation sector and the Department for Transport.

Personal Life

Gittins lives in her Clwyd East constituency. She is married.  

Trivia

Gittins was selected for the Labour Party’s Labour Next Generation programme in 2021/22.

She joined the Labour Party in 2014.