Jo Gideon

Joanna Mary Gideon MP (born 7 November 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent Central constituency since the 2019 general election.

In the 2017 general election she stood in Great Grimsby, finishing 2,565 votes behind the Labour victor Melanie Onn. She was elected in May 2019 as a borough councillor on Ashford Borough Council. and was a cabinet member on Ashford Borough Council for Community Safety & Wellbeing. She stood down as councillor following her election to Parliament in December 2019.

Gideon earned a degree from the University of Birmingham, and has worked in higher education as a small business owner and a ‘social entrepreneur. She ran a business importing and selling handmade paper.

She has also worked as an aide to Rt Hon. Damian Green MP.

Her daughter is actress Ingrid Oliver.