Matthew Raymond Western (born 7 November 1962) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Warwick & Leamington since 2017.

[1] Prior to entering politics, Western worked in various senior management roles during a 24-year career with Peugeot both in the UK and Paris, France.

[4] Western entered politics relatively late in life, and was elected to the Leamington Willes ward of Warwickshire County Council for the first time in 2013.

[16] However, as a result of Western's petition and a campaign by a local pressure group, the project was put on hold and the private equity backed partner company PSP was withdrawn.

Western stated that the scrapped plans would result in Warwick District Council having to pay out £1.2 million in compensation to PSP, even though there was never an official tendering process.

[17] In February 2019, Western proposed a Bill that sought to limit the driving hours worked by bus drivers on local routes.

[22] In August 2019, Western was a signatory to a letter calling on the UN Secretary General António Guterres to intervene and prevent India's revocation of Article 370 regarding the province of Kashmir's self-autonomy.

After this emerged, Western said that he was "disappointed that the report has since been used to push an anti-electrification line in the media", and that he "was not aware of any link between the PR firm involved and Aston Martin".