Dover and Deal.

Tapp's most notable deviation from Labour orthodoxy has come on assisted dying: he voted for two new clauses to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in June 2025, going against the majority of his parliamentary party. Earlier, in December 2024, he also broke ranks to oppose a ten-minute rule motion on proportional representation -- a stance that sits oddly with Labour's generally cautious position on electoral reform but signals he is content to be on the conservative side of that debate. Otherwise, he is a 99.3% party-line voter, backing the government on asylum support tightening, the pension funds reserve power, and every significant Lords-versus-Commons confrontation in recent months.

His participation rate of 78% sits somewhat below the Commons average, though he has racked up 193 contributions across 69 debates since 2024. Immigration dominates his speech record -- not surprising for a Dover and Deal MP -- with crime, social care, defence, and the economy also featuring heavily. His voting profile shows strong alignment on progressive taxation and workers' rights, but he scores notably low on civil liberties (21%) and welfare expansion (40%). Compared with his Labour colleagues, he votes more consistently for local government powers and criminal justice reform, and less often in line with positions coded as pro-pension-protection and pro-football-regulation.

In the constituency, Tapp has attracted positive local coverage for education outreach -- including a scheme connecting Westminster with local schools -- and for condemning an antisemitic art exhibition in his patch. He has no committee roles. News sentiment over the past 90 days is mixed, with immigration coverage averaging low scores and education coverage the most positive. Speech data runs to March 2026; voting data extends to April 2026.