Charlotte Nichols

Charlotte Louise Nichols is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Warrington North since the 2019 general election. Prior to her political career, she worked as a trade union official.

Nichols was born in Romford, Essex, England and grew up in Reading, Berkshire. She has three sisters and three step-siblings. Her father Ged is the general secretary of the financial services trade union Accord and was appointed as the president of the TUC in 2019. She studied politics at the University of Liverpool, graduating in 2013. After graduation, she worked in Salford for five years for the USDAW trade union.

Nichols stood as the Labour candidate for Warrington North in the 2019 general election. She was elected with a majority of 1,509 votes. Prior to the election, Nichols worked as a national research and policy officer for the GMB trade union and was a previous women's officer of the youth wing of the party, Young Labour. She identifies ideologically as being on the left-wing of the Labour Party. Nichols supported Rebecca Long-Bailey in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election, but nominated Emily Thornberry to broaden the field of candidates.

After her election, she was the centre of a controversy when she tweeted in October that a group of S.S. Lazio fans who had been filmed making Nazi salutes in Glasgow should "get their heads kicked in". Nichols defended her comments in December, "These were people doing Nazi salutes on the streets of Britain... As a Jewish person whose grandfather fought in World War Two, ultimately sometimes I believe that fascism has to be physically confronted".

In the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn, she served as the PPS to Tracy Brabin as Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport before being moved in the Shadow Cabinet of Keir Starmer to the PPS to Emily Thornberry as Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade.

Nichols converted to Reform Judaism in 2014. She identifies as LGBT.