Juliet Campbell is the Labour Party MP for Broxtowe, having first been elected to parliament at the 2024 general election.

In the 2024 general election, Campbell won 19,561 votes, representing 40.9% of the vote. The Conservative candidate, Darren Henry, received 11,158 votes (23.3%), while the Reform UK candidate, Joseph Oakley, secured 8,402 votes (17.6%). Campbell was duly elected with a majority of 8,403.

The Broxtowe constituency is located in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands. It is considered a bellwether seat.

Campbell’s immediate predecessor as the MP for Broxtowe was Darren Henry of the Conservative Party. Henry held the seat from 2019 to 2024, succeeding Anna Soubry who left the Conservative Party to form the Independent Group (later Change UK) in the 2017-2019 parliament.

Political Career

Campbell is a member of the House of Commons environment, food and rural affairs select committee (since November 2025) – the committee responsible for scrutinising the work of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). It looks at issues from farming to the water sector to a circular economy.

Campbell also serves as a member of the House of Commons ecclesiastical committee (since November 2024) and the joint human rights committee (also since November 2024).

Campbell was a member of the public bill committee for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill from January 2025 to March 2025.

Campbell was appointed as a member of the United Kingdom delegation to the Nato parliamentary assembly (Nato PA) by the prime minister in November 2024. The delegation serves as a consultative link between the UK parliament and Nato. The assembly brings together legislators from all 32 member states to debate and provide oversight on security and defence policy. The party distribution of the delegation is intended to reflect the composition of the House of Commons.

In May 2026, Campbell 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.”

In October 2024, Campbell called on the government to implement a dyslexia strategy as chair of the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on dyslexia.

At the time, she said: “Dyslexic individuals often face barriers that affect their self-esteem, educational outcomes, and earning potential, and they are disproportionately overrepresented in the criminal justice system…

“I am calling on the government to introduce a dyslexia strategy to even the playing field for dyslexic people by… reforming the teacher training curriculum to ensure educators are equipped to recognise and support dyslexic learners.”

Campbell delivered her maiden speech on 5 November 2024 during a debate on income tax.

In it, she said: “Broxtowe is a wonderful, thriving constituency of two halves. In the north, I have a particular soft spot for Eastwood, as it borders Bilborough, where I was raised. Eastwood, of course, is the birthplace of one of the most popular English novelists of the 20th century, D. H. Lawrence, who showed a much more clandestine side of British society.”

She added: “I stand here today as the youngest of five children, born to parents who migrated to the UK from Jamaica in the 1960s. My parents brought me up to believe that I could do anything I wanted, and that the only barriers in front of me were those that I chose to notice. I took notice of none of them.”

Before entering parliament, Campbell served as a Labour councillor on Lewisham London Borough Council from 2018 to 2024.

Political views

Leadership elections

Labour deputy leadership 2025: Campbell 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.

Welfare

Welfare vote (July 2025): Campbell 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

Campbell 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).

Before Politics

Campbell began her career in the civil service before taking on a position in the NHS.

She subsequently set up a not-for-profit organisation to raise awareness of dyslexia and to train educators in how to identify dyslexia in the classroom, and to offer support to dyslexic children.

In her 2024 maiden speech, Campbell told the House: “I began my career as a civil servant before moving into the NHS, where I worked my way up to become a senior manager, but it was education that brought me into politics.

“In 2011, I set up a not-for-profit organisation that focused on dyslexia, and I sincerely hope that what I advocated for – reform of the teacher training curriculum with regard to send provision for dyslexic students – can make it into the education reforms soon.”

Personal Life

Campbell grew up in Nottinghamshire and is of Jamaican descent.

Her father was an engineer. Her mother ran a shop.

Campbell’s son is dyslexic.

Trivia

Campbell was a member of the public bill committee that scrutinised the assisted dying bill introduced in 2024.