Bradford West.

Shah's most notable recent parliamentary activity came on the assisted dying bill, where she broke from her party on five separate votes in June 2025 -- all concerning safeguards around the terminal illness definition, particularly the risk that voluntary starvation could be used to meet eligibility criteria. She voted to tighten those provisions even when Labour's majority went the other way, placing her among the more cautious MPs on the bill's scope. Beyond Westminster, she has been publicly opposing the government's decision to fill in the Queensbury Tunnel, a local infrastructure fight that drew protests in Bradford West, and she secured parliamentary attention over racism and safeguarding failures in British ju-jitsu affecting her constituents.

A 96.6% party-line voter across her full voting record, Shah's deviations are selective rather than habitual. Her stance profile shows strong alignment with workers' rights (90%), progressive taxation (95%), and housing development (93%), but notably low scores on parliamentary scrutiny (12%) and Lords scrutiny (0%), suggesting she backs the government's legislative timetable even when the upper chamber pushes back. She is notably below the party average on armed forces welfare votes (0% versus a party average of 49%). Her 494 contributions across 60 debates are concentrated in health and social care -- topics consistent with a constituency that faces significant deprivation -- alongside a notable volume of defence contributions. Participation at 68% is below the Commons average.

Shah has no current committee roles. News coverage over the past 90 days is high volume -- 101 articles -- but mixed in tone, with the most positive sentiment clustering around community and cultural issues, including the launch of a memoir drawing on her personal experience of forced marriage and domestic violence. That background, detailed in a February 2026 Times interview, directly informs her sustained advocacy on gender-based violence. Vote data covers up to April 2026; speech data runs to May 2026.