Rosie Wrighting is the Labour MP for Kettering, having first been elected to parliament at the 2024 general election.

In the 2024 general election, Wrighting won 18,009 votes, representing 35.9% of the vote. The Conservative incumbent, Philip Hollobone, received 14,189 votes (28.2%), while the Reform UK candidate, Crispian Besley, secured 8,468 votes (16.9%). Wrighting was duly elected with a majority of 3,820.

The Kettering constituency is located in North Northamptonshire, in the East Midlands. The seat was held by Philip Hollobone of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2024, and before that by Labour from 1997 to 2005.

Political Career

Wrighting currently serves as a parliamentary private secretary (PPS) in the Ministry of Defence. 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. Wrighting was appointed to this role in July 2026, following the Labour leadership contest and Andy Burnham’s elevation as prime minister.

Wrighting served as a parliamentary private secretary (PPS) in the Department of Health and Social Care from September 2025 to May 2026.

In May 2026, Wrighting resigned as a PPS. The move followed the 2026 local elections and devolved elections to the Scottish Parliament and Senedd Cymru. Wrighting’s resignation was seen as significant due to her position in the Department of Health and Social Care. She was reported to be an ally of Wes Streeting, the health secretary. Notably, all three DHSC PPSs – Race, Joe Morris and Wrighting – resigned.

Wrighting confirmed she had stepped down in a post to social media responding to Streeting’s resignation. She described Streeting as a “generational talent”.

She added: “The challenges that face our country are enormous. As an MP in my 20s, I feel that strongly. I know what it’s like to have living standards worse than our parents’, and I feel we owe my generation, and the one that comes after, everything.

“We must show that we can be better than this, that politics can change things for the good and offer people hope. Because if we don’t, we risk Reform UK and the divisive politics of Nigel Farage taking hold of this country.”

Wrighting concluded by calling for “an open debate of ideas about how we move forward from this moment, with the best field of candidates that our movement has.”

Wrighting sat alongside Streeting on 16 May during his first public appearance following his resignation at the Progress annual conference.

Wrighting, alongside fellow Labour MP from the 2024 Gordon McKee, has fronted social media content posted by the Labour Party’s official accounts. In March 2026, Wrighting and McKee met with Morris Katz, a leading ally of the mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani.

In April 2025, Wrighting introduced the Maternity Units (Requirement for Bereavement Suite) Bill under the 10-minute rule procedure. The bill sought to mandate that all new maternity units include a dedicated bereavement suite.

Addressing the House, Writing stated: “No number of new facilities can take the pain away, but parents whose local hospital has a dedicated bereavement suite away from the main labour ward can process that pain in privacy and peace.”

In the wake of the 2024 general election, which saw Labour returned to power after 14 years in opposition, Wrighting was appointed by 10 Downing Street as a “mission champion” for the East Midlands – a role intended to cut across departmental boundaries and support Labour’s programme for “national renewal”. These “missions”, first set out in 2023 and subsequently given less prominence, included boosting economic growth, reducing NHS waiting times, tackling crime, establishing a publicly owned clean energy company and expanding educational opportunity.

Wrighting has sat as a member of the House of Commons business and trade committee.

Wrighting delivered her maiden speech on 30 July 2024 during a debate on the Budget Responsibility Bill.

In it, she said: “Under the last government, my generation faced significant hardships.

“There is a lot of talk about gen Z, but many in my generation have had challenging experiences, such as education being moved to our living rooms; growing up on social media and experiencing the dark place that it can be, especially during the campaign; fear of a climate crisis in our lifetime; renting in insecure housing, with the idea of home ownership only a distant dream; and trying to build a career in the midst of a cost of living crisis. It is this that has led to my generation’s trust in politicians being so low.”

Political Views

Leadership elections

Labour deputy leadership 2025: Wrighting 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

Labour Growth Group: Wrighting has been listed as a member of the Labour Growth Group (LGG) – a vocal faction of backbenchers committed to ensuring economic growth remains the central mission of the government. The group, largely composed of MPs from the 2024 intake, positions itself as the voice of “the builders, not the blockers” and provides organised support for ministers taking on politically difficult decisions in the name of economic expansion.

In an open letter addressed to Keir Starmer, issued upon the group’s founding in July 2024, LGG MPs said it was imperative that “the government grasps the nettle and goes for growth”.

They added: “This absolutely has to start with the sweeping planning reforms to get Britain building again. Under the Tories, planning permissions for new homes hit record lows and housebuilding cratered. Indeed, not once in their 14 years in power did the Conservatives meet their housing targets.”

SERA: Wrighting 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): Wrighting 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

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

Social values and conscience issues

Abortion decriminalisation (2025): Wrighting 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

Rosie May Wrighting was born on 28 July 1997 in Kettering, Northamptonshire. She attended Bishop Stopford School and Montsaye Academy locally.

Wrighting studied fashion buying at the University of Westminster, graduating in 2020.

Wrighting’s career before entering parliament centred on roles in the fashion industry. She was a fashion consultant at Topshop and a fashion buyer at Asos from 2013 to 2024.

Personal Life

Wrighting’s mother, Cindy Wrighting, has served as CEO of the local youth charity Youth Works.

She was diagnosed with epilepsy as a young adult.

Trivia

Wrighting was the youngest woman elected to parliament in 2024 at the age of 26.