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The most striking thing Antoniazzi has done recently is propose the Lords amendment to decriminalise abortion -- a significant legislative move that generated substantial press coverage in March. As chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, she also drew headlines for pressing the PSNI chief constable on his force's capacity to tackle violence against women. These two interventions put her among the more publicly visible backbenchers of the current Parliament.

Her voting record is a 100% party-line one across 346 of 521 votes -- a participation rate below the Commons average -- and she has no rebel votes. However, her stance profile reveals quiet divergences from her colleagues: she votes for immigration controls at a higher rate than the Labour average (+14 percentage points) and is notably less aligned with criminal justice reform and welfare expansion than the typical Labour MP. On parliamentary scrutiny, she sits above the party average, consistent with her committee chair role. Her speeches span a wide range -- economy, crime, social care, defence -- suggesting a broad rather than narrowly specialist focus.

Her committee work explains much of her public profile. As chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee she holds a formal scrutiny remit that naturally generates coverage, and she sits on the Liaison Committee alongside other select committee chairs. News sentiment across 90 days is mixed: gender-based-violence stories score strongly positive, while the larger volume of crime-related coverage averages close to neutral. Speech data runs to late April 2026; voting data covers the same period.