Jade Botterill

Jade Alexandra Botterill is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Ossett and Denby Dale since 2024. She serves as a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Home Office.

Early life

Botterill grew up in Wakefield; her mother worked as a carer and her father as a prison officer. She did not attend university and began working at the local River Island store aged 16, having worked since age 13.
She also worked as the community development officer for local rugby team Wakefield Trinity where she campaigned to improve local children's health and wellbeing.

From 2013 to 2019, Botterill worked as parliamentary assistant and head of office to Yvette Cooper MP, whom she met while campaigning to save a Sure Start centre in Cooper's Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford constituency. She also worked as a corporate affairs adviser for Yorkshire Water, and later public affairs manager for 38 Degrees. Prior to her election, she worked for Portland Communications.

Botterill was selected as the Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for the Ossett and Denby Dale constituency in September 2023.
Shortly after her election, she was appointed as the parliamentary private secretary to the Home Office. In her maiden speech, she said one of her focuses as a Member of Parliament would be campaigning for opportunities for young people in her constituency.
In November 2024, Botterill voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill, which proposes to legalise assisted suicide. Botterill has campaigned and voted for more regulation of the water industry.
In the September 2025 cabinet reshuffle Botterill was appointed to the ministerial position of assistant government whip.