Hamble Valley.

A reliable Conservative vote with active local roots, Paul Holmes has spent recent weeks following his party's line through the King's Speech debates -- supporting opposition amendments criticising Labour's legislative programme and voting against the government's agenda -- and backed the motion to refer Prime Minister Starmer to the Privileges Committee over the Mandelson appointment. He voted against the government's power to direct pension fund investments, siding with Lords amendments that the government overrode. None of these were rebel votes; Holmes has voted with the Conservative majority on every recorded division, making him a 100% party-line MP.

His parliamentary participation sits at 75% -- slightly below the Commons average -- and his voting profile is consistent with mainstream Conservative positions: strongly pro-business (90%), anti-tax increases (93%), and supportive of Lords scrutiny and parliamentary oversight. He speaks frequently, with over 900 contributions across 172 debates, concentrating on local government, economy and jobs, housing, and fiscal policy. He deviates from his party's average on armed forces welfare, voting in that direction less often than most Conservative colleagues -- a gap of 24 percentage points.

Beyond Westminster, Holmes has been visibly active in Hamble Valley: lobbying against the closure of a local study centre, pressing for station lift upgrades for disabled passengers, opposing a quarry development at Hamble Airfield (unsuccessfully), and publicly challenging a major bank branch closure. Recent local news coverage is dominated by crime stories, though the sentiment across 43 articles over 90 days is close to neutral. He holds no current committee roles.