James Andrew Plaskitt (born 23 June 1954) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Warwick and Leamington from 1997 until his defeat at the 2010 general election.

In the 1992 general election he contested Witney for Labour, losing by a substantial margin to the then Conservative Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd.

[2] He served on the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee from 1999, and in the 2001 general election was re-elected with an increased margin, although on a lower turnout.

He left the Gordon Brown Government by mutual agreement in October 2008, and was re-appointed to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee in July 2009.

[6] Plaskitt's face was used as the model for the character of Colonel George Blake in the 2001 computer game Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis.