Alison McGovern is the Labour Member of Parliament for Birkenhead, and Minister of State in the Department of Work and Pensions.  She has been a Member of Parliament since 2010.  Under Keir Starmer’s leadership, she returned to the frontbench in 2020, and now leads on labour market policy, after three years on the Treasury Select Committee responsible for scrutiny of the UK’s monetary and financial institutions. She was chair of Progress 2015-20, the organisation for Labour’s progressives, and as a pro-European, also took a leading role in the cross-party backbench liaison on Brexit. Before joining the House of Commons, she was Deputy Leader of the Labour group in the London Borough of Southwark.  She is a regular on broadcast and in print on political and economic topics.  Outside of politics, she is a season ticket holder at Liverpool Football Club and a contributor to the Anfield Wrap podcast.