Sureena Brackenridge was elected Labour MP for Wolverhampton North East on 4 July 2024 with 14,282 votes (42.9 percent) and a majority of 5,422 (16.3 percent), defeating Conservative Jane Stevenson, with Reform UK on 23.2 percent on a turnout of just 47.1 percent. She is rooted in the constituency to an unusual degree: born in Wednesfield within the seat in 1975, a self-described "proud Wulfrunian", she went to Wednesfield High School and the University of Wolverhampton, an entirely local upbringing and education. She was Mayoress of Wolverhampton in 2021-22, raising funds for homeless and veterans charities under the motto "Unity is strength".

Her career was specifically in science teaching, not generic education. She spent 25 years in the classroom, rising to deputy headteacher at Moseley Park School within the Central Learning Partnership Trust. That frontline experience has shaped her parliamentary voice: "Something as basic as a class set of glue sticks or reliable access to working printers has become a luxury," she told one committee, and she drew on 25 years of classroom evidence about funding disparities when serving on the Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill Committee, as well as the Finance and Tobacco and Vapes bill committees.

She sits on the Education Select Committee, a placement that matches her expertise directly, and her APPG interests include British Sikhs, STEM Diversity, and Steel and Metals. She succeeded Jane Stevenson, who had taken the seat from Labour's Emma Reynolds in 2019.

Brackenridge's strengths include being born and raised in the constituency, an entirely local education, 25 years as a science teacher and deputy head, the Mayoress role and its charity fundraising, three bill committees in her first year including the private schools bill where her classroom evidence was directly relevant, the Education Select Committee matching her expertise, and a 16.3 percent majority providing reasonable security. Her weaknesses include no ministerial office, no legislative achievement bearing her name, Reform at 23.2 percent, a turnout of only 47.1 percent leaving over half the electorate unrepresented, and the challenge that the Education Committee must produce visible improvements in Wolverhampton schools to justify the teacher-MP identity. At 51, with 25 years of classroom experience, the Education Committee and the private schools bill committee, she has a more substantial constituency presence than first appears. Whether Wolverhampton schools see improved SEND provision, science funding and pupil outcomes will determine whether the science teacher becomes a consequential education MP.