Lucy Clementine Moores Rigby is a British Labour Party politician and

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who has been Member of Parliament for Northampton North since

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. She has served as Solicitor General for England and Wales since 2 December 2024.

Early life and education

Rigby's father served in the

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and she was born in RAF Hospital Wegberg in Germany. Her mother worked for the

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. Rigby studied politics at

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, graduating with a

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(BA) degree. She then undertook a Graduate Diploma in Law (a law conversion course) at Nottingham Law School and the Legal Practice Course at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice.

Legal career

Rigby spent time with the

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in the Hague. She joined

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as a trainee in 2007, and was admitted as a

in May 2009. She spent secondments in Brussels and Sydney. She remained at Slaughter and May as an associate from 2009 to 2011, specialising in

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. She then joined the litigation unit of the Office of Fair Trading, working from 2011 to 2012. After spending time dedicated to trying to win a parliamentary seat at the 2015 General Election, Rigby then worked at the consumer body ''

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'', from 2015 to 2017. She specialised in competition and

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matters. In March 2017, Rigby joined the competition specialist law firm Hausfeld & Co LLP. She specialised in competition law and large-scale collective redress, particularly in opt-out collective actions before the Competition Appeal Tribunal and opt-in claims via a group litigation order. She became a partner in 2021. Rigby was listed as a 'Global Leader in Competition Plaintiff' in Who's Who Legal 2023 and in Lawdragon's 500 Global Plaintiff Lawyers 2024. Rigby was a board member of The Collective Redress Lawyers Association from November 2021 to April 2024.

Political career

In 2010, Rigby was elected a councillor for the Holloway ward of Islington London Borough Council. She stepped down in March 2012, triggering a by-election. In 2012, Rigby was selected as Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate for Lincoln. In the

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, she came in second with 18,533 votes (39.6%).

House of Commons

Rigby was elected as MP for Northampton North in the 2024 General Election. On 29 October 2024, Rigby was elected a member of the

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. She was also subsequently elected as a delegate to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Following the Assembly's Annual Session in Montreal in November 2024, Rigby was elected as the vice-chair of the Transition and Development Sub-Committee of the Economic and Security Committee. In November 2024, Rigby was appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Ministry of Justice. She was appointed Solicitor General in December 2024, in a minor reshuffle following the resignation of

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. On 3 February 2025, Rigby was appointed

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rigby, Lucy Living people UK MPs 2024–present Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Alumni of Durham University 21st-century British women politicians Alumni of Nottingham Trent University Councillors in the London Borough of Islington Labour Party (UK) councillors Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Solicitors general for England and Wales 21st-century King's Counsel