Dartford.

Dartford's Jim Dickson has been one of the more visibly active new Labour MPs since 2024, combining local casework with parliamentary policy work. He tabled an amendment in Parliament calling for a complete ban on cigarette filters, citing both health and environmental harms -- a move covered nationally in April 2026. Before that, he demanded refunds for constituents caught in a 36-hour Dartford Tunnel shutdown, lobbied the Department for Transport over a landslip on a local road (securing a ministerial visit), and raised Reform-led Kent County Council's service cuts at PMQs, winning a public endorsement from the Prime Minister. He also spoke publicly about his mother's dementia to push for NHS social care funding -- a disclosure that drew BBC coverage.

His parliamentary record is disciplined and engaged. A 90% voting participation rate sits above the Commons average, and he has not broken with Labour on a single division -- a 100% party-line record across 465 votes. His contributions cluster around the economy, health, local government and social care. He sits on the Treasury Committee, which aligns with his frequent speeches on fiscal policy and cost-of-living. His stance profile shows strong alignment with progressive taxation and workers' rights, but notably low scores on pro-business and parliamentary scrutiny measures -- consistent with backing the government against repeated Lords amendments on the Pension Schemes and Children's Wellbeing Bills.

Where Dickson diverges from the Labour average, the gaps are modest but consistent: he scores around 20 points below his party on local democracy votes, and leans slightly more towards restricting assisted dying than the Labour average. Local news coverage -- 118 articles in 90 days -- is dominated by transport and crime, with broadly neutral sentiment. Data on his committee activity beyond membership is not available.