Martin Whitfield

Martin Whitfield MP
Official parliamentary portrait by Chris McAndrew (June 2017)
Member of Parliament for East Lothian
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 June 2017
Preceded by	George Kerevan
Majority	3,083 (5.5%)
Personal details
Born	1965 Newcastle-upon-tyne
Political party	Labour

Martin Whitfield (born 1965) is a Scottish Labour Party politician and former primary school teacher. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Lothian since the 2017 general election, defeating then-incumbent MP, George Kerevan of the SNP.

Whitfield was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and trained in law in Edinburgh, but later left the law profession and retrained as a school teacher. He worked at Prestonpans Primary School and served as a council member of the General Teaching Council of Scotland as well as a member of the EIS, Scotland's largest trade union. He lives in Prestonpans with his family.

Martin Whitfield has supported the official recognition of non-binary people in official government documentation. He has pledged his support to 'The Israel British Alliance,' part of the Zionist Federation, a group supporting Israel and Zionism.

Whitfield attracted controversy in a debate on the abuse of MPs when he claimed that "now is the time to ban anonymous social media accounts". A move online blogger Paul Staines called "draconian" and "idiotic." Whitfield claimed he was echoing similar remarks from SNP MEP Alyn Smith.