Natalie Fleet

Natalie Fleet (born 1984) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolsover since 2024.

Early life and career
Fleet was born in 1984 and raised in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Her mother is a former factory worker and her father and other family members were coal miners.

As a child, she received free school meals and experienced homelessness. Fleet left school at 16 after becoming pregnant, and commenced a university course in her early 20s before dropping out.

Fleet worked in the voluntary sector before working for trade unions, including the National Education Union.

Political career
Fleet joined the Labour Party as a teenager.

She was the Labour candidate for Ashfield at the 2019 general election, finishing in third place in the seat Labour had won in 2017. 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.

Fleet was elected as the first female MP for Bolsover at the 2024 general election, defeating the incumbent Conservative Mark Fletcher. She had failed to win Bolsover Labour's initial candidate selection, and won the subsequent one following the winning candidate's resignation.

Personal life
Fleet is married with four children. 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. - 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.

Fleet has spoken of wanting to be a voice for other women who are victims of grooming and sexual violence.