Nina Claire Temple (born 21 April 1956)^[1] is a British politician who was the last Secretary^[2] of the Communist Party of Great Britain and was formerly a think-tank director in the United Kingdom.

Temple was born in Westminster, London, the daughter of Barbara J. (Rainnie) and Landon Roy Temple. Born into a communist family (her father ran Progressive Tours and was a Communist Party of Great Britain member),^[2] she joined the Young Communist League when she was 13, later protesting in London against the Vietnam War.^[3] She has a degree in materials science from Imperial College, London.^[3][4] She is the sister of film director Julien Temple and the aunt of actress Juno Temple.^[5]

During the late 1970s she was general secretary of the Young Communist League and became a prominent member of the Eurocommunist faction within the party. She became a member of the CPGB executive in 1979, and then a member of the Political Committee in January 1982.^[6]

She was the Press and Publicity Officer of the CPGB from January 1983 until 1989,^[7] when she became the last general secretary of the party in January 1990, aged 33.^[3] She pledged to make the party "feminist and green, as well as democratically socialist."^[8] In this role Temple became one of the leading proponents of the dissolution of the CPGB in November 1991, and the founding of its legal successor, the Democratic Left,^[9][10] proclaiming that "The internationalism of the 1990s will be as much informed by Greenpeace and Oxfam, as communism once was by Marx and Engels".^[11]

The Democratic Left continued through the 1990s, becoming the New Politics Network in 1999. Temple was its first director^[9] and worked for five years for the Make Votes Count Coalition.^[12]

In June 2005 she started work as head of development and communications at the Social Market Foundation, a role she held until 2008.^[4]

Temple has two children with a schoolteacher, a daughter born in 1987 and a son born in 1988.^[3]

Temple became ill with Parkinson's disease in 2000.^[4] She trained in counselling at the Gestalt Centre in Old Street, and in September 2003 founded Sing For Joy, a choir of people with chronic degenerative diseases.^[4][13][14]