Jack Rankin's career begins with a biographical tension worth stating plainly: a working class kid from Ashton-under-Lyne who now represents Windsor.

Jack Michael Rankin was born on 19 August 1992 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester. He describes his background as "aspirational working-class, with self-made businesspeople parents". He attended West Hill School, a state comprehensive in Stalybridge, and read mathematics and physics at the University of Warwick, graduating in 2014 with an integrated master's, the MMathPhys. He chaired the university's Conservative Association.

He came to Windsor for work. In 2014 he joined Centrica at its headquarters on Maidenhead Road in Windsor, inside the constituency, working in commodity trading and investment. He later led the UK and Ireland renewable advisory business of Pexapark, a Swiss firm specialising in renewable energy transactions, and is a published industry author, writing on hybrid power purchase agreements in the renewables sector.

His roots in Windsor grew fast. Elected to the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council for Castle Without ward in 2015, topping a field of twelve candidates, he became the youngest cabinet member in the council's history, chaired the Windsor Town Forum and sat on the board of the Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership.

Twice he stood and lost before he won. In 2017 he contested his home town of Ashton-under-Lyne, finishing second to Angela Rayner, the future Deputy Prime Minister, in her own seat. In 2019 he stood in Warwick and Leamington, again second, to Labour's Matt Western. Selected for Windsor in September 2023, he succeeded Adam Afriyie, who in 2005 had been the first Black Conservative MP and who held the seat for nineteen years.

He was elected on 4 July 2024 with 16,483 votes, 36.4 per cent, and a majority of 6,457, or 14.3 per cent. He sits on the Scottish Affairs Committee, an unusual posting for a Berkshire MP, and sponsored the Licensing Hours Extensions Bill in October 2024. His many all party group memberships range from birth trauma and male suicide to semiconductors and water pollution. Locally he campaigns on the Channel One flood relief scheme, opposes a third runway at Heathrow, and presses for visible policing and infrastructure to match new housing. He has rebelled four times in 426 divisions, including on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.

At 33, Rankin is one of the youngest Conservative MPs, and the Ashton to Windsor trajectory gives him a more revealing political profile than a standard market minded Tory. The energy background, the Warwick physics master's and the persistence behind two prior defeats are real. The open question is whether the renewable expertise, the flood campaign and the local activism translate into visible delivery for Windsor, or whether his career stalls on the opposition benches.