Rosie Winterton

Dame Rosalie "Rosie" Winterton  (born 10 August 1958) is a British Labour Party politician.

She has been the Member of Parliament for Doncaster Central since 1997. In June 2017, Winterton became one of three Deputy Speakers in the House of Commons.

Positions
In cabinet
She served under Prime Minister Tony Blair as a Minister in the Department of Health, then under Gordon Brown as Minister of State for Transport from 2007 to 2008, Minister for Work and Pensions from 2008 to 2009, and Minister for Local Government from 2009 to 2010. 

These made her the only one of the deputy speakers to have served as a minister in the government. 
Others
She later entered the shadow cabinet in May 2010 as the shadow leader of the House of Commons. In September 2010, Winterton was nominated and elected unopposed as Labour Chief Whip. She served in that post until October 2016. She was elected as one of three deputy speakers of the House of Commons on 28 June 2017. She was re-elected unopposed on 7 January 2020. 

On 27 February 2022, Winterton announced that she would not stand at the next UK general election.

Category:1958 births
Category:Living people
Category:Labour Party (UK) MPs