Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard.

Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard's MP has kept close to the Labour line since winning the seat in 2024 -- with one exception. In June 2025, Alex Mayer voted for an amendment to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill that would have allowed a substitute doctor to complete an assessment if the original independent doctor became unable to do so -- going against her party's majority position and registering notably more support for assisted dying provisions than the Labour average. On local issues, her recent coverage has been positive: she championed a banking hub for Dunstable from her first month in office, raising it directly with a minister, and has engaged with wildlife and land-use policy through site visits with the Wildlife Trust.

At 95% voting participation and 99.8% party alignment, Mayer is an active and loyal backbencher. Her speeches -- 83 contributions across 71 debates -- concentrate on economy and jobs, local government, transport, and environment. Her stance profile places her firmly with Labour on workers' rights and progressive taxation, but her voting record shows she is less aligned with climate action positions than the party average (-8 percentage points) and sits below party norms on disability benefits votes. She sits on the Transport Select Committee, which aligns with transport featuring among her most frequent debate topics.

Her deviation on assisted dying is the clearest point of independent judgement in an otherwise orthodox parliamentary record. News coverage over the past 90 days runs across 87 articles -- mostly culture, community, and local economy stories -- with broadly neutral-to-mildly-positive sentiment. No significant negative coverage is recorded. Speech data runs to late March 2026; voting data extends to May 2026.