Linsey Jayne Farnsworth is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for

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since 2024.

Early life and career

Farnsworth was raised in Erewash, Derbyshire and the first in her family to attend university. Her father was a coal miner who, following mine closures, retrained as a bricklayer and her stepmother was a nurse. Qualifying as a solicitor in 2001, Farnsworth worked as a criminal solicitor for the

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(CPS) for over two decades. During her tenure at the CPS, she prosecuted serious and organised crime as an international liaison prosecutor.

Political career

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, Farnsworth was elected as a Member of Amber Valley Borough Council for Kilburn,

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, Holbrook and Horsley. She became the first Labour councillor to represent the ward in over 20 years, and was also elected to the Parish Councils in Horsley and Kilburn. Farnsworth was elected as MP for

at the

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, defeating incumbent

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Nigel Mills.

Personal life

Farnsworth is married with children.

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* Living people Politicians from Derbyshire Councillors in Derbyshire 21st-century British women politicians UK MPs 2024–present Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Labour Party (UK) councillors People from the Borough of Erewash Women councillors in England Year of birth missing (living people) {{Labour-UK-MP-stub