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Jenny Chapman
Jennifer Chapman, Baroness Chapman of Darlington (born 25 September 1973) is a British politician and life peer who has served as Minister of State for International Development, Latin America and Caribbean since 2025. She previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Latin America and Caribbean from 2024 to 2025. A member of the Labour Party, she served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington from 2010 to 2019.
Chapman was political secretary to the Leader of the Opposition, Keir Starmer, from 2020 to 2021. As Shadow Minister of State at the Cabinet Office from 2021 to 2023, she served as a member of the shadow cabinet. She was appointed Chancellor of Teesside University in 2023.
Chapman was born in September 1973 in Surrey but moved at a young age to Darlington, where she attended Hummersknott School and Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College. She completed a Bachelor of Science in psychology at Brunel University in 1996, and later took an MA in archaeology at Durham University in 2004. She had work placements attached to prison psychology departments whilst studying for her undergraduate degree.
Chapman worked as constituency office manager for Darlington Labour MP Alan Milburn. After a career break to have children, she returned to politics at Darlington Borough Council when she was elected as borough councillor for the Cockerton West ward in 2007.
In November 2009, Chapman was shortlisted as one of four candidates to succeed Milburn as Labour's parliamentary candidate for Darlington on an open shortlist, i.e. not an all-women shortlist. She was selected to stand for parliament by the local constituency party the following month. She was elected Darlington MP in the 2010 general election with a majority of 3,388. As a result of her election victory, she decided to stand down as a councillor.
In 2011, Chapman was appointed as Shadow Minister for Prisons. She had previously written policy recommendations on the subject of incarceration, including a recommendation that prison officers should receive training to help them rehabilitate inmates. She became Shadow Minister for Childcare and Early Years in January 2016, but resigned in June of the same year among dozens of Labour frontbench colleagues. Chapman campaigned to remain in the European Union in the 2016 EU membership referendum.
She supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the subsequent leadership election held in 2016. She later rejoined the Opposition frontbench as Shadow Minister for Exiting the European Union.
Chapman was one of the many Labour MPs to be defeated at the 2019 general election, losing her seat to Conservative Peter Gibson following 27 years of Labour holding the constituency.
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Jenny Chapman
Jennifer Chapman, Baroness Chapman of Darlington (born 25 September 1973) is a British politician and life peer who has served as Minister of State for International Development, Latin America and Caribbean since 2025. She previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Latin America and Caribbean from 2024 to 2025. A member of the Labour Party, she served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington from 2010 to 2019.
Chapman was political secretary to the Leader of the Opposition, Keir Starmer, from 2020 to 2021. As Shadow Minister of State at the Cabinet Office from 2021 to 2023, she served as a member of the shadow cabinet. She was appointed Chancellor of Teesside University in 2023.
Chapman was born in September 1973 in Surrey but moved at a young age to Darlington, where she attended Hummersknott School and Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College. She completed a Bachelor of Science in psychology at Brunel University in 1996, and later took an MA in archaeology at Durham University in 2004. She had work placements attached to prison psychology departments whilst studying for her undergraduate degree.
Chapman worked as constituency office manager for Darlington Labour MP Alan Milburn. After a career break to have children, she returned to politics at Darlington Borough Council when she was elected as borough councillor for the Cockerton West ward in 2007.
In November 2009, Chapman was shortlisted as one of four candidates to succeed Milburn as Labour's parliamentary candidate for Darlington on an open shortlist, i.e. not an all-women shortlist. She was selected to stand for parliament by the local constituency party the following month. She was elected Darlington MP in the 2010 general election with a majority of 3,388. As a result of her election victory, she decided to stand down as a councillor.
In 2011, Chapman was appointed as Shadow Minister for Prisons. She had previously written policy recommendations on the subject of incarceration, including a recommendation that prison officers should receive training to help them rehabilitate inmates. She became Shadow Minister for Childcare and Early Years in January 2016, but resigned in June of the same year among dozens of Labour frontbench colleagues. Chapman campaigned to remain in the European Union in the 2016 EU membership referendum.
She supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the subsequent leadership election held in 2016. She later rejoined the Opposition frontbench as Shadow Minister for Exiting the European Union.
Chapman was one of the many Labour MPs to be defeated at the 2019 general election, losing her seat to Conservative Peter Gibson following 27 years of Labour holding the constituency.