Becky Gittins

Becky Gittins
MP
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Clwyd East
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byConstituency created
Majority4,622 (9.7%)[1]
Personal details
Political partyLabour
Alma materUniversity of Warwick

Rebecca Gittins[2] (born 1994 or 1995) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament for Clwyd East since 2024. She gained the seat by beating incumbent Conservative MP, James Davies.[3]

After coming to Coventry to study at the University of Warwick in 2013, she remained in the city, eventually being elected as a councillor for Earlsdon ward in Coventry City Council for the Labour Party, serving from 5 May 2019 to 18 September 2023.[4] During this time she served on Scrutiny Boards, the Licensing and Regulatory Committee, and was the Deputy Cabinet Member for Children and Young People. She resigned her position in September 2023 in order to run as the prospective Labour Party parliamentary candidate for Clwyd East, the area in North Wales she was born and brought up in, triggering a by-election.[5][6]

The BBC described her as a "former accountant and civil servant".[7] North Wales Live said Gittins "trained as an accountant and worked in finance and has also served as a councillor. Her job before election was as a trade union negotiator."[8]

  1. ^ "Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll - UK Parliamentary Election for the Clwyd East Constituency" (PDF). Flintshire County Council. 7 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Members Sworn". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 752. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 11 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Clwyd East | General Election 2024". Sky News. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  4. ^ "City councillor stands down triggering by-election". Coventry City Council. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Election results for Earlsdon | Local City & Parish Council Elections - Thursday, 2nd May, 2019". Coventry City Council. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  6. ^ "City councillor stands down triggering by-election". Coventry City Council. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  7. ^ "Election results Wales: Who are the 13 new Welsh MPs?". BBC News. 5 July 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  8. ^ Hughes, Owen; Mosalski, Ruth (5 July 2024). "The full list of all eight MPs in North Wales and who they are". North Wales Live. Retrieved 10 August 2024.