Marie Tidball

Marie Tidball is a British Labour politician and disability rights campaigner, who has been the Member of Parliament for Penistone and Stocksbridge since 2024.

She was born with a congenital disability which affects all four limbs, with foreshortened arms and legs and a digit on each underdeveloped hand.

Her mother was a nursery head and her father was a teacher and Labour county councillor, who helped found Barnsley College.

[3][9] In June 2022, Tidball was selected to stand as the Labour candidate for the 2024 election, with the backing of multiple trade unions, as well as Dan Jarvis, Stephanie Peacock and David Blunkett.

[13][14] Tidball supported Kim Leadbeater's bill introducing assisted suicide into law and served on the committee examining the legislation[15].