Philip Ian Hope (born 19 April 1955) is a former British Labour and Co-operative politician who was the member of parliament (MP) for Corby from 1997 until 2010, when he lost his seat to the Conservatives.

On leaving university in Exeter, he taught science for a year at Kettering School for Boys, before joining the National Council for Voluntary Organisations in 1979 as a youth policy advisor.

He unsuccessfully contested Kettering at the 1992 General Election where he came second to the sitting Conservative Party transport minister Roger Freeman by 11,154 votes.

He was promoted to the government of Tony Blair in 2003 as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, again under John Prescott, at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

In 2008, following the Investigation and withdrawal of the whip from MP Derek Conway the Daily Telegraph revealed that Hope had 'admitted' employing his children, both Politics students, at unspecified times during university holidays.

Diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease in December 2006, Hope was later given the all-clear after successful treatment[4] at Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.