Linsey Farnsworth

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Linsey Farnsworth
MP
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Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Amber Valley
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byNigel Mills
Majority3,554 (8.3%)
Member of Amber Valley Borough Council
for Kilburn, Denby, Holbrook and Horsley
In office
4 May 2023 – 19 March 2025
Personal details
PartyLabour
ProfessionSolicitor
WebsiteOfficial website

Linsey Jayne Farnsworth is a British Labour Party politician and lawyer serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Amber Valley since 2024.

Early life and career

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Farnsworth was raised in Erewash, Derbyshire and the first in her family to attend university.[1] Her father was a coal miner who, following mine closures, retrained as a bricklayer and her stepmother was a nurse.[2]

Qualifying as a solicitor in 2001,[3] Farnsworth worked as a criminal solicitor for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for over two decades.[4][5] During her tenure at the CPS, she prosecuted serious and organised crime as an international liaison prosecutor.[1]

Political career

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In 2023, Farnsworth was elected as a Member of Amber Valley Borough Council for Kilburn, Denby, Holbrook and Horsley.[6] 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 Amber Valley at the 2024 general election, defeating incumbent Conservative Nigel Mills.[7]

Personal life

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Farnsworth is married with children.[8]

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