Alison McGovern (born 30 December 1980) is a British Labour politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birkenhead since 2024, and previously Wirral South since 2010.

[2] She is the granddaughter of songwriter and activist Peter McGovern,[2] and is the daughter of a British Railways telecoms engineer father and a mother who was a nurse.

[5][6] McGovern made her maiden speech in the House of Commons on 3 June 2010 in a debate on European Affairs.

[14] She departed the opposition front bench after Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader in September 2015.

[3] In January 2016, McGovern resigned from Labour's policy review on child poverty and combating inequality, as a protest against Progress being described by shadow Chancellor John McDonnell as having "a hard right agenda".

[16] McGovern supported Owen Smith in the unsuccessful attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour Party (UK) leadership election.

[17] McGovern served as chair of the Advisory Committee on Works of Art from July 2016 until April 2020, when she rejoined the opposition front bench.