Cat Eccles

Cat Eccles is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament for Stourbridge since 2024. Before entering national politics, she worked as a senior operating department practitioner in hospital operating theatres and served as a councillor for the Wollaston and Stourbridge Town ward on the Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council. In Parliament, she chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Visual Arts and Artists and has been an advocate for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. Eccles has spoken openly about how her autism affects her navigation of parliamentary procedures, which she has described as arcane.