Lizzi Collinge

Elizabeth "Lizzi" Rachel Collinge is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament for Morecambe and Lunesdale since 2024.

Early life and education

Collinge was born in Lancashire, and moved to rural Cumbria as a child. She moved to the Morecambe and Lunesdale area in 2005 after spending some time in New Zealand.

Political career Collinge was a member of Lancashire County Council, representing Lancaster East for Labour, between 2016 and 2025.

She has expressed support for nuclear power as part of the UK's long-term energy and decarbonisation strategy, highlighting the role of nuclear power in providing reliable, low-carbon electricity, and the importance of providing jobs. There are two nuclear power stations at Heysham nuclear power station in her constituency.

Parliamentary career

Collinge first stood for election in Morecambe and Lunesdale in the 2019 general election, where she came in second place with 39% of the vote behind David Morris, the incumbent Conservative MP, with 53%.

Collinge was selected in September 2023 as the Labour candidate for Morecambe and Lunesdale for the next general election. In the 2024 general election she was elected as MP for the seat, with 40.8% of the vote and a majority of 5,815 over the second-placed candidate, the Conservative David Morris who had previously represented the seat since 2010. There were five candidates, and a turnout of 63%. The notional 2019 result for the area was Conservative.

Collinge was sworn in as an MP on 10 July 2024.

Personal life Collinge is married to Miles, who works full-time in the NHS. She is a humanist. She is the great-great-niece of fell-walker and writer Alfred Wainwright.