Barnsley South.

Stephanie Peacock's most visible recent action has been her repeated breaks with Labour on the assisted dying bill. On 20 June 2025 she voted four times against her party's majority position -- backing amendments to close the voluntary starvation loophole and supporting procedural moves her party rejected. These are her only rebel votes on record, but they cluster on a single, conscience-driven issue rather than signalling broader dissent. Away from Parliament, her ministerial profile has been rising: as Sports and Tourism Minister she secured a £45m deal keeping the World Snooker Championship at Sheffield's Crucible, and championed a breakthrough insurance framework for female sports stars through the Women's Football Taskforce.

At 69% voting participation she sits below the Commons average, though ministerial duties routinely reduce attendance. Where she does vote, she is a 96.6% party-line voter -- reliable on workers' rights (92% aligned across 50 votes), progressive taxation (96%), and housing development (93%), but notably less so on climate action (46%) and parliamentary scrutiny (27%). Her speech record of 602 contributions across 109 debates is substantial; culture and community dominate (95 contributions), followed by economy and local government -- a pattern that fits both her ministerial brief and a Yorkshire constituency with strong sport and industrial heritage.

Her deviations from party averages are telling: she sits 51 percentage points above Labour colleagues on armed forces welfare votes, and 22 points above on end-of-life autonomy -- suggesting genuinely held positions rather than tactical positioning. News sentiment across 90 articles over 90 days is broadly neutral, with economy and culture coverage slightly positive. She holds no select committee roles, consistent with her ministerial position. Voting and speech data cover her full parliamentary career; news data covers the past 90 days only.