Barking.

Nesil Caliskan broke from Labour three times on 20 June 2025 to vote against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at Third Reading -- one of the most charged conscience votes of this parliament. She also voted for two amendments designed to close a loophole that would have allowed someone to qualify as terminally ill solely by voluntarily stopping eating and drinking. Those rebel votes make her one of the more visible assisted dying sceptics on the Labour benches, and they align with a pattern of voting above the Labour average on assisted dying safeguards. Closer to home, she has campaigned against the closure of Barking's only maternity unit, raising the issue in Parliament and making representations to the NHS -- coverage in the Evening Standard and Barking and Dagenham Post framed her as actively opposing the decision, though the closure proceeded regardless.

At 81% voting participation and 97.4% party alignment, she is a reasonably active, largely loyal backbencher. Her strongest consistent positions are progressive taxation (100% aligned) and housing development (93% aligned), and she speaks frequently on economy and jobs, housing, and local government -- a pattern reflecting Barking's pressures as a high-birthrate, high-demand outer-London constituency. She sits notably below the Labour average on civil liberties (-13 percentage points) and noticeably above it on lords-override (+20pp), public services funding (+19pp), and criminal justice reform (+15pp).

Pre-election coverage from a left-wing outlet alleged bullying and undue influence during her candidate selection, generating a significant negative score -- though that material predates her parliamentary career. Her committee role is limited to the Committee of Selection, a procedural body. Speech data runs to April 2026; vote data to June 2025.