Labour MP Samantha Niblett has launched a campaign titled ‘Yes Sex Please, We’re British’, aiming to make 2026 the ‘summer of sex’ and shift political focus toward the joys of orgasm. The South Derbyshire MP, a member of the Blue Labour wing, hopes to prevent abuse and violence while raising awareness of how childbirth, menopause, and health conditions affect sexual satisfaction.
Niblett has enlisted sextech entrepreneur Cindy Gallop, founder of the website MakeLoveNotPorn, which features consenting adults having ‘messy, intimate, sensual sex’. Gallop told PoliticsHome: ‘It’s a turn-on, it helps you masturbate.’ The campaign seeks to secure a parliamentary debate in autumn and an exhibition in Portcullis House displaying sex toys, pending security clearance.
The initiative has drawn comparisons to 1960s counterculture, with some noting the irony given MPs’ chequered history with sex, including Boris Johnson’s multiple affairs and the 2017 discovery of porn on a laptop in former Tory minister Damian Green’s office. Former Tory MP Neil Parish also admitted watching porn in the Commons chamber while searching for tractor websites.
Niblett voted in favour of means-testing winter fuel payments for pensioners, leading some to suggest she expects older people to keep warm through sexual activity. The campaign’s title is a play on the 1973 film ‘No Sex Please, We’re British’.
