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Natalie Fleet has announced her resignation from the position of safeguarding minister, explaining that the role proved to be “overwhelmingly triggering” and was adversely affecting her health. The Labour MP, who endured grooming and rape during her teenage years, revealed to the BBC that she informed the team of the new Prime Minister that she “sadly couldn’t stay” in the post.
Fleet, who described stepping down as the “bravest thing I’ve ever done,” expressed her support for whoever succeeds her. She took on the safeguarding minister role on 12 May this year following the resignation of Jess Phillips, who had criticized the previous leadership for stalling progress on related issues.
In a statement shared on the social media platform X, Fleet emphasized the privilege it was to serve as minister for safeguarding but admitted that the content of the job was deeply unsettling for her. She said, “Victims deserve someone at their best,” pointing out to BBC News that the nature of the role involved confronting some of humanity’s darkest realities. As someone with personal trauma, Fleet found the emotional impact particularly difficult, despite receiving support from the Home Office.
Elected as the MP for Bolsover in July 2024, succeeding Conservative Mark Fletcher, Fleet succeeded a seat held by Labour stalwart Dennis Skinner from 1970 until 2019. She has been transparent about her traumatic past, sharing in a 2024 interview with GB News that she became pregnant at 15 after being groomed and raped, describing her daughter as “the absolute love of my life.” In her maiden speech to the House of Commons, Fleet committed herself to representing women in her Derbyshire constituency “whose stories are not being told.”
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