Sally Jameson

Sally Jameson was elected Labour and Co-operative MP for Doncaster Central on 4 July 2024 with 17,515 votes (46.2 per cent) and a majority of 9,551 (25.2 per cent). This was no comfortable inheritance: the seat's notional majority had collapsed to just 2,278 by 2019, and it was one of 14 constituencies where Labour announced candidates early precisely because it was at risk. Her 9,551 majority is a recovery from near disaster.

Born and raised in Doncaster, she worked in Parliament for the Labour Party before moving back to her hometown in 2018 and becoming a prison officer at HMP/YOI Moorland, a men's category C prison and Young Offender Institution. She was branch chair of the Prison Officers' Association and an active Unite member. "I always wanted to be in a uniformed service," she said, "I also wanted to be somewhere I could be part of changing things and rehabilitating prisoners." A political operative who left Parliament to work in a prison and then returned as an MP is an unusual trajectory. She served as Doncaster Central CLP Secretary from 2018 and was agent for the outgoing MP Dame Rosie Winterton, campaigning for Labour for over a decade and winning selection in July 2022 with backing from UNISON, ASLEF, the Co-operative Party, USDAW and Mayor Ros Jones.

She was appointed PPS to the Ministry of Justice, then moved to the Home Office in September 2025. In May 2026 she called on Keir Starmer to resign as Prime Minister; she did not merely resign her PPS role, she publicly demanded the Prime Minister's removal. She has otherwise been a consistently loyal voter across 498 divisions: her dissent took the form of withdrawing her service as a PPS, not voting against the government in the lobby.