Daniel Leonard James Poulter[2][3] (born 30 October 1978) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich from 2010 to 2024.

Poulter worked as a junior doctor training in obstetrics and gynaecological medicine and has published articles in the area of women's health.

[4] During the 2011 parliamentary summer recesses, Poulter worked at the James Paget University Hospital in Gorleston in Norfolk, in the Accident and Emergency department.

[8] In 2011, he was credited with a "lifesaving" intervention in Parliament when he persuaded fellow Conservative MP Guy Opperman to seek urgent medical treatment.

[23][24] In a March 2022 article penned by Poulter for the East Anglian Daily Times, he said "studies of healthy omnivores eating a diet rich in plant foods have failed to find consistent evidence that red meat is unhealthy".

[28] In February 2019, The Sunday Times apologised in open court to Dan Poulter for falsely alleging he had sexually assaulted three female MPs.

A Conservative Party investigation exonerated Poulter, finding no complaints had ever been made against him and dismissing the claims as lacking "reliable evidence.