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Julie Minns
Julie Minns (born 11 December 1968) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Carlisle since 2024. A member of the Labour Party, Minns is the first female MP to represent the constituency.
Minns's father, who died in 2007, was a painter and decorator whilst her mother, Freda, who died in 2025, was a former home-help. Minns is a distant cousin of Ernest Lowthian, who was the first Labour politician to stand for election to the UK parliament in the Carlisle constituency, and her great-grandfather John Hodgson-Minns, was a Conservative councillor and alderman of the city.
Minns was born in Carlisle. She grew up in the Denton Holme area of the city and attended Robert Ferguson School and Trinity School, Carlisle. She had a Saturday job at a local bakery and was the first member of her family to go to university.
After graduating from Newcastle University, Minns was a National Officer for Labour Students. She worked on John Smith's Labour leadership campaign, and as a parliamentary adviser to former Streatham Labour MP Keith Hill.
Minns was elected to Lambeth London Borough Council in 1998 as a councillor for Thornton ward, and held the transport portfolio whilst serving on the council. She did not seek re-election in 2002, choosing to step down to bring up her daughter as a single parent.
Before entering Parliament, Minns worked as a freelance communications consultant. Prior to this, she worked in industry as head of customer engagement at UK Power Networks. She spent 13 years in corporate affairs, regulatory and corporate responsibility roles at UK mobile network operator Three UK. While at Three, Minns gave evidence to the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament Select Committees, and led on the network’s work on child protection, helping draw-up the joint Code of Practice for the self-regulation of new forms of content on mobile phones in order to protect children from inappropriate material in 2004.
She was a parliamentary adviser for the NSPCC and a parliamentary officer for the disability rights charity Scope, where she co-wrote a report on access to voting for disabled people in the 1997 general election.
Minns held a part-time consultancy role at public relations, reputation management, and marketing company Bell Pottinger in 2014. She then was a partner at the company from January 2015 to August 2016. The company went out of business in 2017 following a scandal related to the Gupta family, who had an account with the company from January 2016. In 2023 Private Eye magazine claimed that Minns had attempted to conceal her employment by the company in her online profile. Minns responded by correcting her profile and confirming that she had left the company over a year before its closure.
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Julie Minns
Julie Minns (born 11 December 1968) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Carlisle since 2024. A member of the Labour Party, Minns is the first female MP to represent the constituency.
Minns's father, who died in 2007, was a painter and decorator whilst her mother, Freda, who died in 2025, was a former home-help. Minns is a distant cousin of Ernest Lowthian, who was the first Labour politician to stand for election to the UK parliament in the Carlisle constituency, and her great-grandfather John Hodgson-Minns, was a Conservative councillor and alderman of the city.
Minns was born in Carlisle. She grew up in the Denton Holme area of the city and attended Robert Ferguson School and Trinity School, Carlisle. She had a Saturday job at a local bakery and was the first member of her family to go to university.
After graduating from Newcastle University, Minns was a National Officer for Labour Students. She worked on John Smith's Labour leadership campaign, and as a parliamentary adviser to former Streatham Labour MP Keith Hill.
Minns was elected to Lambeth London Borough Council in 1998 as a councillor for Thornton ward, and held the transport portfolio whilst serving on the council. She did not seek re-election in 2002, choosing to step down to bring up her daughter as a single parent.
Before entering Parliament, Minns worked as a freelance communications consultant. Prior to this, she worked in industry as head of customer engagement at UK Power Networks. She spent 13 years in corporate affairs, regulatory and corporate responsibility roles at UK mobile network operator Three UK. While at Three, Minns gave evidence to the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament Select Committees, and led on the network’s work on child protection, helping draw-up the joint Code of Practice for the self-regulation of new forms of content on mobile phones in order to protect children from inappropriate material in 2004.
She was a parliamentary adviser for the NSPCC and a parliamentary officer for the disability rights charity Scope, where she co-wrote a report on access to voting for disabled people in the 1997 general election.
Minns held a part-time consultancy role at public relations, reputation management, and marketing company Bell Pottinger in 2014. She then was a partner at the company from January 2015 to August 2016. The company went out of business in 2017 following a scandal related to the Gupta family, who had an account with the company from January 2016. In 2023 Private Eye magazine claimed that Minns had attempted to conceal her employment by the company in her online profile. Minns responded by correcting her profile and confirming that she had left the company over a year before its closure.
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