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 [1] |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse | Ritchie Fleet [2] (2007–) [3] |
| Children | 4 |
Natalie Fleet (born 24 May 1984) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolsover since 2024.
Fleet was born in 1984 and raised in Ashfield,Nottinghamshire. [4] Her mother is a former factory worker and her father and other family members were coal miners. [5]
As a child,she received free school meals and experienced homelessness. [6]
Fleet worked in the voluntary sector before working for trade unions,including the National Education Union. [6]
Fleet joined the Labour Party as a teenager. [4]
She was the Labour candidate for Ashfield at the 2019 general election,finishing in third place in the seat Labour had won in 2017. [7] 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. [6]
Fleet was elected as the first female MP for Bolsover at the 2024 general election,defeating the incumbent Conservative Mark Fletcher. [8] [9] She had failed to win Bolsover Labour's initial candidate selection, [10] and won the subsequent one following the winning candidate's resignation.
In November 2024,Fleet voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill,which proposes to legalise assisted dying. [11]
Fleet is married with four children [5] and one grandchild. After her election as an MP in 2024,she said in an interview on GB News—conducted by her friend,former Ashfield MP Gloria De Piero [6] —that she had been groomed at the age of 15 by an older man,with whom she had sex (statutory rape),and subsequently 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 change the law around parental rights for rapists. [15]