Canterbury.

Sitting as an Independent since resigning from Labour in September 2024 -- citing "sleaze, nepotism and greed" -- Rosie Duffield has voted against the government's position on several significant divisions in recent weeks. In April 2026 she backed proscribing Iran's IRGC as a terrorist organisation, voted to retain Lords amendments abolishing non-crime hate incidents, supported referring Keir Starmer to the Privileges Committee over the Mandelson appointment, and backed preserving smaller pension schemes from forced mergers. Taken together, these votes place her consistently to the right of Labour and in frequent alignment with Conservative positions on security, civil liberties, and parliamentary accountability.

Her participation rate -- 31% of votes cast -- is well below the Commons average, which typically sits around 60--70%. That low figure has been a feature of her tenure, not a recent development. Where she does vote, her stance profile shows strong support for Lords scrutiny (89%), climate action (89%), and workers' rights (82%), alongside striking deviations from Labour's average: she is 65 percentage points more favourable to immigration control than her former party and 58 points less aligned with progressive taxation. She speaks most frequently on health, social care, and the economy, and sits on the Women and Equalities Committee.

The context for her current position matters: Duffield spent years under sustained harassment over her gender-critical views, was excluded from Labour conference for security reasons in 2021, and publicly weighed leaving the party as early as 2022. Her defection came 85 days after re-election on a Labour ticket, a fact critics noted at the time. News coverage over the past 90 days -- 44 articles, roughly neutral in tone -- focuses mainly on local issues in Canterbury rather than her parliamentary work.