Natalie Fleet | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament for Bolsover | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Mark Fletcher |
| Majority | 6,323 (14.9%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 May 1984 |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse | Ritchie Fleet (m. 2007) |
| Children | 4 |
Natalie Fleet (born 24 May 1984) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolsover since 2024. She is a member of the Labour Party.
Fleet was born on 24 May 1984 and raised in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. [1] [2] Her mother is a former factory worker and her father and other family members were coal miners. [3] As a child, she received free school meals and experienced homelessness. [4]
Fleet worked in the voluntary sector before working for trade unions, including the National Education Union. [4]
Fleet joined the Labour Party as a teenager. [2] She was the Labour candidate for Ashfield at the 2019 general election, finishing in third place in the seat Labour had won in 2017. [5] She received threats and her campaign office was vandalised during the election campaign and she chose not to contest the seat again due to safety concerns. [4]
Fleet was elected as the first female MP for Bolsover at the 2024 general election, defeating the incumbent Conservative Mark Fletcher. [6] [7] She had failed to win the initial candidate selection, [8] and won the subsequent one following the winner's resignation.
In November 2024, Fleet voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which proposes to legalise assisted dying. [9]
Fleet married Richie Fleet in 2007. [10] [11] They have four children [3] and one grandchild.
After her election as an MP in 2024, she said in an interview on GB News that she had been groomed at the age of 15 by an older man, with whom she had sex with, and as a result became pregnant with her first daughter. [12] Fleet has spoken of wanting to be a voice for other women who are victims of grooming and sexual violence. [13] [14] As of June 2025 she was working to remove parental rights from rapists. [15]
