Polly Billington

Polly Billington
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for East Thanet
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byconstituency re-established
Majority6,971 (16.3%)
Personal details
BornNovember 1967 (age 56)
Political partyLabour
Alma materUniversity of Sussex (BA)

Polly Billington (born 1967) is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament for East Thanet since 2024.

Prior to her election she was an environmental campaigner and had worked as a broadcast journalist for the BBC before becoming a special advisor to Ed Miliband. She was the media director for his successful bid in the 2010 Labour leadership election.[1] In 2016 she founded the climate politics network UK100.[2]

  1. ^ "Channel Four, Who Knows Who". Retrieved 21 February 2011.
  2. ^ "UK100". Retrieved 9 February 2021.