John Timothy Grogan (born 24 February 1961) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Selby between 1997 and 2010 and for Keighley between 2017 and 2019.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern History and Economics in 1982, and also served as the first President of the Oxford University Student Union, the first to be elected on a Labour Party (UK) platform.

Grogan unsuccessfully contested the North Yorkshire seat of Selby at the 1987 general election against the Conservative MP Michael Alison, losing by 13,779 votes.

As the incumbent Alison had retired at the election, he defeated the former Conservative MP for West Lancashire, Kenneth Hind, who had lost his seat in 1992, with a majority of 3,836.

[5] In 1999, he called for a memorial to the heroism of women during World War II to be remembered on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square, with the campaign gaining the backing of the then Speaker of the House of Commons, Betty Boothroyd, and the Princess Royal.

He campaigned against the proposed expansion of Heathrow Airport,[12] the top-up tuition fee reforms in 2004[13] and voted against the UK's involvement in the Iraq War in 2003.

[18] Grogan also campaigned for the protection of the rights of agency workers,[19] the regulation of lobbyists[20] and access for all to sporting listed events on free-to-air TV.

[37] In 2018 Grogan was the only Labour MP to vote against his party's amendments to the Data Protection Act 2018 on the grounds that they threatened press freedom.

[38] In Parliament he also helped revive campaigns to expand the number of listed sporting events not permitted to be broadcast solely on pay television services[39] and for trains to be run on Boxing Day.