Blaydon and Consett.

Liz Twist's most visible recent work has been championing Maya's Law -- a child safeguarding campaign prompted by the murder of a toddler in her constituency. She secured a Westminster Hall debate in October 2025, delivered a speech highlighting systemic failures, and attended the campaign launch, earning strong local coverage in the Northern Echo and Chronicle Live. Her all-party parliamentary group on Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention adds a second strand of active advocacy, including hosting a parliamentary exhibition on suicide in November 2025. Her only rebel votes came on the assisted dying bill in June 2025, where she broke with the Labour majority on five procedural and substantive amendments -- consistently favouring tighter safeguards around the voluntary stopping of eating and drinking as a route to eligibility, and supporting provisions to allow reassignment to a new doctor mid-assessment.

At 92% voting participation and 97.7% party alignment, Twist is an engaged and loyal MP. Her speeches concentrate on the economy and jobs, local government, health, and social care -- a pattern consistent with a North East constituency facing industrial and public-service pressures. She scores 90% on workers' rights votes and 97% on progressive taxation, but deviates notably from Labour's average on assisted dying, sitting around 20 percentage points more supportive of end-of-life autonomy and safeguards than her colleagues.

Twist serves as the Prime Minister's Parliamentary Private Secretary, appointed in July 2024 -- a role that typically brings influence but constrains public dissent, which makes her assisted dying rebellions the more notable. She holds no select committee seat. News sentiment across 90 days is broadly neutral; local crime coverage, linked largely to the Maya's Law campaign, dominates her press profile.