Croydon South.

Philp is currently serving as shadow home secretary, and his recent parliamentary activity reflects that brief -- crime and immigration together account for the bulk of his 242 contributions across 88 debates. His most notable recent deviation from Conservative orthodoxy came on assisted dying: on 20 June 2025 he backed the bill at Third Reading and voted for amendments tightening its safeguards, placing him among the minority of Conservative MPs who supported the legislation passing to the Lords. At 96.6% party alignment overall, that cluster of rebel votes stands out as genuinely unusual.

His voting participation sits at 62% -- below the Commons average -- though shadow frontbench roles routinely reduce voting attendance. His stance profile is consistently right-of-centre: strongly pro-business (89%), anti-tax (82%), tough-on-crime (79%), and sceptical of workers' rights measures (8% aligned) and progressive taxation (4%). He has backed Lords scrutiny in every relevant vote and supported opposition procedural challenges, including the motion to refer Keir Starmer to the Privileges Committee over the Mandelson appointment. He sits on no select committees.

The most critical recent coverage comes from local outlet Inside Croydon, which has run several negative pieces: one accusing him of hypocrisy on housing development in Purley, another alleging he privately acknowledged Brexit would weaken immigration controls while publicly arguing the opposite, and a third criticising his absence from ceasefire votes on Gaza. His broader news coverage over the past 90 days -- 99 articles averaging a mildly positive score of 0.23 -- is dominated by crime and immigration stories consistent with his shadow brief. Inside Croydon represents a distinct and consistently hostile strand within that coverage.