Central Ayrshire.

A steady, loyal Labour backbencher whose most distinctive recent activity has been constituency campaigning rather than parliamentary rebellion. Gemmell has no rebel votes on record -- he has voted with Labour on every occasion tracked, including backing steel nationalisation, supporting the King's Speech programme, and voting for tighter asylum support rules in April 2026. His 82% voting participation sits close to the Commons average, and his voting record offers no surprises for a first-term Labour MP elected in July 2024.

His parliamentary pattern is consistent party-line support, with a 100% Labour alignment across 426 recorded votes. He leans strongly toward workers' rights and progressive taxation stances, and notably diverges from his Labour colleagues on armed forces welfare -- scoring 31 percentage points above the party average -- and trade union rights, where he votes more consistently pro-union than most Labour MPs. His 67 contributions across 52 debates skew heavily toward economy and jobs, with defence and fiscal policy also recurring. He sits on no select committees.

Local news coverage reveals where Gemmell's energy goes outside the chamber. He spent months lobbying for Red Arrows jets to be manufactured at Prestwick Airport and pushed for North Ayrshire to be designated an AI Growth Zone, engaging directly with Number 10 and the Science and Innovation Secretary. He has also organised community walkabouts and school engagement events. One news article appears to have been mistakenly linked to Gemmell -- a 2016 story about a surgeon performing operations in the Middle East relates to a different MP. No news sentiment data is available for the most recent 90-day period.