Bath.

Wera Hobhouse has made environmental opposition her most visible recent cause, signing the Uplift pledge against the Rosebank oil field development and publicly connecting climate impacts -- flooding, food prices -- to Bath residents' daily lives. On the assisted dying bill she broke from her party in June 2025, voting for New Clause 2, which would have required the Secretary of State to issue guidance and consult palliative care providers. More recently she voted to refer the Prime Minister to the Privileges Committee over the Mandelson appointment and opposed government regulations allowing asylum support to be withdrawn from those found working illegally -- both consistent with her strong alignment on parliamentary scrutiny (93%) and civil liberties (100% against her party's 79%).

At 62% voting participation she sits below the Commons average, though her 425 contributions across 248 debates suggest she is more active in the chamber than her vote count implies. She is a 99.7% party-line voter. Her speeches cluster around economy and jobs, health, environment, and social care -- and she has been vocal locally on NHS pressures, warning publicly of an A&E emergency in Bath and calling for 8,000 additional GPs. Her stance data shows consistent opposition to the employer National Insurance increase (100%) and firm support for Lords scrutiny (100%), while she deviates notably from party colleagues by voting more often for NHS funding and civil liberties protections.

She sits on the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee, which directly explains her sustained focus on environment and energy -- 93 combined speech contributions across those topics. Her news coverage over the past 90 days runs to 87 articles, skewing toward culture and community, with economy, housing, and local government also prominent; sentiment across that coverage is broadly neutral. Voting data and speech records are available through May 2026.