Bournemouth West.

Toale has broken with Labour twice on the assisted dying bill -- both times backing restrictions on the legislation rather than the more permissive position taken by most of her colleagues. In May she voted to let employers such as religious hospices ban their staff from participating in assisted dying even if the worker personally wished to do so; in June she backed additional guidance requirements. Those two rebel votes are her only departures from party line across more than 400 votes, making her a 99.5% party-line voter in all other divisions. Locally, she has secured a £20 million investment for West Howe and championed community-led solutions to knife crime -- both covered positively in the Bournemouth press.

Her participation rate of 80% sits slightly below the Commons average. In the chamber she speaks most on economy and jobs, social care, local government, and crime -- a portfolio that maps closely onto Bournemouth West's priorities. Stance data shows she votes strongly with Labour on workers' rights and progressive taxation, but her record on climate action (57% aligned) and welfare expansion (45% aligned) sits noticeably below the typical Labour position. She votes consistently against Lords amendments and against measures framed around parliamentary scrutiny -- both in line with government whipping -- and backs consumer protection at a higher rate than most Labour MPs.

She sits on no select committees, which limits her formal scrutiny role for now. Her news coverage -- led by constituency work on postal services, youth politics summer schools, and local investment -- suggests a ground-level focus in her first parliamentary term. Speech data and news sentiment broadly confirm this: an MP building a local profile rather than a Westminster one, with the assisted dying votes her only sign of independent parliamentary judgement so far.