Earley and Woodley.

Yuan Yang's most distinctive recent act was breaking with Labour twice on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill -- voting for a new clause requiring Secretary of State guidance on palliative care in June, then voting against the Bill's final Third Reading. These were among her only two rebel votes since entering Parliament in 2024, in an otherwise 99.5% party-line record. Beyond assisted dying, she has been publicly visible on constituency matters: she backed a formal letter to the Home Secretary defending Hong Kong migrants facing visa changes, and raised the case for higher sick pay in Parliament as part of Labour's Living Standards group.

Her parliamentary engagement sits at 82% -- slightly below the Commons average -- across 421 votes and 130 contributions in 73 debates. Economy, jobs, fiscal policy, and cost-of-living dominate her speech topics, which aligns with her seat on the Treasury Committee. She votes strongly with Labour on workers' rights and progressive taxation but diverges from party norms on assisted dying (voting against access in around a third of relevant divisions, compared to roughly half of Labour MPs) and shows notably low alignment with positions favouring business or tougher criminal sentencing. She consistently backs Lords reform but resists Lords scrutiny powers -- a combination that puts her to the government's side on parliamentary architecture questions.

Her background as a former Financial Times journalist and China correspondent plausibly explains both her Treasury Committee role and her advocacy for Hong Kong constituents. Local news coverage -- 65 articles over 90 days -- is broadly neutral, with the strongest positive signals around immigration and culture funding. The assisted dying votes are the clearest evidence of independent judgement in an otherwise disciplined parliamentary record.