Deborah Angela Elspeth Marie Abrahams (née Morgan; born 15 September 1960) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Oldham East and Saddleworth since 2011.

[3][4] She studied at the Bolton Institute of Technology and received a Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry and physiology from University of Salford.

[3] Her early employment was as a community worker for a charity in Wythenshawe in south Manchester, where she set up job training programmes for teenagers.

[8] She then joined the Labour Party, declaring that she wanted "to challenge health policy at a local and national level to ensure that it reflects [the] core values" of the NHS.

[15] She sought to reassure Clinical commissioning groups that the Labour Party's proposed health reforms would not amount to a top-down 'big bang' shake up of the NHS.

[16] At the 2015 general election, Abrahams was re-elected as MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth with a decreased vote share of 39.4% and an increased majority of 6,002.

[23] In February 2021, Abrahams was one of three MPs who successfully took legal action against the Department of Health and Social Care over contracts awarded during the COVID-19 pandemic.

[29] In March 2018, Abrahams was suspended from her position as Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary whilst she was investigated by the Labour Party over a "workplace issue", reported by several media outlets to be related to claims that she bullied staff;[30] she has vehemently denied the claims, adding that she is the victim of a "bullying culture of the worst kind".