Chris Hinchliff

Christopher Volante Hinchliff is a British Labour Party politician. Prior to becoming a politician, he worked for CPRE, The Countryside Charity.

Life
Hinchliff was educated at The Howard of Effingham School in Surrey and King's College, Cambridge, where he read history and was a member of Cambridge University Labour Club. Afterwards, he studied for an MSc in ecological economics at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 2016.

He was a Labour Party organiser before working for the charities Independent Age and CPRE. Since 2022, he has been a Labour and Co-operative Party councillor for the Royston Palace ward of the North Herts Council, where he holds the position of Executive Member for Planning and Transport.

Hinchliff was elected as the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Hertfordshire at the 2024 general election.