Deidre Leanne Brock (born 8 December 1961)[1] is an Australian-born Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh North and Leith from 2015 to 2024.

Her father had emigrated from England to Australia in his teens,[4] making her a dual British and Australian national.

She moved to Scotland in 1996 to live with her partner, having met him when she visited the country on holiday a year earlier.

[5] Brock worked for Rob Gibson before she was elected to the City of Edinburgh Council as an SNP councillor for the Leith Walk ward in 2007.

She was re-elected in the 2012 elections, again topping the poll with 1,735 first preferences, and became the Deputy Lord Provost of Edinburgh as the SNP and Scottish Labour formed an arrangement to run the council.