Lucy Rigby | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2024 | |
Economic Secretary to the Treasury City Minister | |
Assumed office 6 September 2025 | |
Prime Minister | Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | Emma Reynolds |
Solicitor General for England and Wales | |
In office 2 December 2024 –6 September 2025 | |
Prime Minister | Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | Sarah Sackman |
Succeeded by | Ellie Reeves |
Member of Parliament for Northampton North | |
Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
Preceded by | Michael Ellis |
Majority | 9,014 (21.5%) |
Member of Islington London Borough Council for Holloway | |
In office May 2010 –March 2012 | |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1982 Wegberg,West Germany |
Political party | Labour |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | Durham University Nottingham Law School Oxford Institute of Legal Practice |
Website | https://www.lucyrigby.co.uk |
Lucy Clementine Moores Rigby is a British Labour Party politician and solicitor who has been Member of Parliament for Northampton North since 2024 [1] and Economic Secretary to the Treasury since 6 September 2025. She previously served as Solicitor General for England and Wales between 2 December 2024 and 6 September 2025.
Rigby's father served in the Royal Engineers and she was born in RAF Hospital Wegberg in Germany. Her mother worked for the NHS. [2]
Rigby studied politics at Durham University,graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. [3] [4] She then undertook a Graduate Diploma in Law (a law conversion course) at Nottingham Law School and the Legal Practice Course at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice. [3]
Rigby spent time with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague. [5] She joined Magic Circle law firm Slaughter and May as a trainee in 2007, [6] and was admitted as a solicitor in May 2009. [7] [8] She spent secondments in Brussels and Sydney. She remained at Slaughter and May as an associate from 2009 to 2011,specialising in competition law. [6] [9] She then joined the litigation unit of the Office of Fair Trading,working from 2011 to 2012. [6]
After spending time dedicated to trying to win a parliamentary seat at the 2015 General Election, [10] Rigby then worked at the consumer body Which? ,from 2015 to 2017. [6] She specialised in competition and consumer law matters. [11]
In March 2017,Rigby joined the competition specialist law firm Hausfeld &Co LLP. She specialised in competition law. [12] She became a partner in 2021. [6]
Rigby was listed as a 'Global Leader in Competition Plaintiff' in Who's Who Legal 2023 [13] and in Lawdragon's 500 Global Plaintiff Lawyers 2024. [14]
Rigby was a board member of The Collective Redress Lawyers Association from November 2021 to April 2024. [11]
In 2010,Rigby was elected a councillor for the Holloway ward of Islington London Borough Council. [15] She stepped down in March 2012,triggering a by-election. [10]
In 2012,Rigby was selected as Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate for Lincoln. [16] In the 2015 United Kingdom general election,she came in second with 18,533 votes (39.6%). [17]
Rigby was elected as MP for Northampton North in the 2024 General Election. [18]
On 29 October 2024,Rigby was elected a member of the Treasury Select Committee. [19] She was also subsequently elected as a delegate to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Following the Assembly's Annual Session in Montreal in November 2024,Rigby was elected as the vice-chair of the Transition and Development Sub-Committee of the Economic and Security Committee. [20] Rigby also became the co-chair of the backbench Labour Growth Group. [21]
In November 2024,Rigby was appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Ministry of Justice. [22] She was appointed Solicitor General in December 2024,in a minor reshuffle following the resignation of Louise Haigh. [23]
On 3 February 2025,Rigby was appointed King's Counsel. [24] She was appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister on 6 September 2025. [25]