Matthew Toby Perkins (born 12 August 1970) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chesterfield since 2010.

He was in IT Sales as a consultant and Regional Manager for the Prime Time Recruitment organisation, and subsequently set up a rugby product business.

Under Ed Miliband, Perkins became the first of the 2010 intake of new members[8] to speak from the front bench when becoming a Shadow Education Minister in September 2010 under Andy Burnham.

In July 2014, Douglas Alexander appointed Perkins one of three Labour Party Deputy Chairs for the 2015 general election campaign, alongside Gloria De Piero and Jonathan Ashworth.

In Parliament Perkins has led Opposition Day debates for Labour on pub company regulation, Sunday trading laws for the Olympics, and on the Deregulation Bill alongside Chi Onwurah.

Perkins proposed in 2016, via a 10-minute private members' bill, that "God Save the Queen" should cease to be the anthem used by English teams at international sporting fixtures.

[25][26] In April 2020, Perkins was appointed as Shadow Minister for Apprenticeships and Lifelong Learning by new party leader Keir Starmer.

[28][29] Perkins was married in 1996 and separated in 2018, after it was revealed he had been having an affair with his aide, Amanda Collumbine, whom he has lived with in Chesterfield, Derbyshire since January 2019.