Bristol Central.

One of the most active smaller-party MPs in the current Parliament, Carla Denyer has used her platform to push well beyond Green Party territory. In March she signed cross-party letters calling for the closure of animal testing facility MBR Acres and a government apology for the Balfour Declaration, and she drew press attention for her advocacy on energy security and net zero. Her one rebel vote -- breaking with her party on an assisted dying amendment in June 2025 -- was substantive: she backed an amendment to prevent self-starvation being used to qualify as terminally ill, placing her on the more cautious end of end-of-life autonomy questions despite sitting slightly above her party average on that dimension overall. More recently she voted to refer Keir Starmer to the Privileges Committee over the Mandelson appointment, backed Lords amendments the government sought to remove on English devolution, and opposed new regulations cutting asylum-seeker housing support.

Her voting participation sits at 74% -- somewhat below the Commons average -- though with 213 contributions across 105 debates she is vocal when present. She votes with the Green Party on 99.7% of divisions. Her strongest consistent stances are pro-workers-rights (94%) and pro-climate action (86%), while she diverges sharply from the "fiscal responsibility" and "pro-business" clusters, scoring 26% and 8% respectively. Economy and jobs dominate her speech activity, followed by environment, energy, and housing -- a mix that reflects both constituent pressures in Bristol Central and her membership of the Environmental Audit Committee.

The devolution votes are worth noting: her 0% rating on "pro-commons-primacy" questions signals a consistent preference for Lords scrutiny over government convenience, and her anti-lords-override score is the highest deviation above her party average. She stepped back from the Green Party co-leadership role after the 2024 election to concentrate on her MP duties, and the speech and news data suggest she has done so. Local coverage over the past 90 days is broad -- housing, culture, crime, and transport all feature -- though average sentiment scores are close to neutral, suggesting factual rather than evaluative reporting.