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Euan Stainbank broke with Labour three times on welfare reform in July 2025, voting against the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill at Second Reading, backing a wrecking amendment, and opposing it again at Third Reading. This places him among the Labour rebels on what became one of the parliament's most contentious internal fights over disability benefits and Universal Credit eligibility. He also voted with the minority on an end-of-life care amendment in June 2025 -- a free-vote issue where his position is harder to characterise as rebellion but still marks a distinct parliamentary footprint. His deviation scores confirm the pattern: he votes to protect disability benefits at a rate roughly 25 percentage points above his party's average.

At 89% voting participation, Stainbank sits above the Commons average and contributes across a wide range of topics -- 208 contributions spanning economy and jobs, local government, health, energy, and social care. He is a 99.1% party-line voter outside welfare, and his stance profile shows strong alignment with workers' rights and progressive taxation while sitting far below his party average on pro-business and parliamentary scrutiny votes. He sits on the Finance Committee, which shapes his focus on fiscal and economic questions.

Locally, coverage is positive: the Falkirk Herald has credited him with securing over £40m in community investment for areas including Hallglen, the Braes villages, and Falkirk town centre, and he has run monthly constituency surgeries since his election. The two negative news articles in the dataset concern his predecessor, not Stainbank. Recent 90-day coverage is broadly neutral across 116 articles, suggesting no active local controversy. Parliamentary data covers his term from July 2024 onwards.