Colleen Margaret Fletcher (née Dalton; born 23 November 1954) is a British Labour Party politician. She was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry North East in the 2015 general election. Prior to her parliamentary career, she was a local councillor.

Colleen Margaret Dalton was born on 23 November 1954 in Coventry, England to William Charles and Dot Dalton.^[1] Her mother was a Labour councillor on Coventry City Council. She grew up in Coventry and attended Richard Lee Primary School, Lyng Hall School, and the further education college Henley College.^[2]

Fletcher represented Wyken ward on Coventry City Council from 1992 to 2000 and between 2002 and 2004.^[3] In 2011, Fletcher was elected as a Labour Party councillor for the Upper Stoke ward on the same council.^[4]

In December 2013, she was selected as the Labour candidate for Coventry North East. The seat had been represented by a Labour MP since its formation in 1974.^[5] Fletcher was elected as MP with a majority of 11,775 (29.1%). She was re-elected in the 2017 general election.^[6]

She supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour leadership election.^[7] Since October 2017, Fletcher has sat on the Administration Committee and is an opposition whip.^[8]

Fletcher supported the United Kingdom (UK) remaining within the European Union (EU) in the 2016 UK EU membership referendum. In the indicative votes on 27 March 2019, she voted for a referendum on a Brexit withdrawal agreement, for the Norway-plus model, and for a customs union with the EU.^[9]

On 5 September 2022, she announced she would be standing down at the next general election.^[10]

Fletcher was married to Ian Richard Fletcher from 1972 until his death in 2018; the couple have two sons.^[11][12]