Hammersmith and Chiswick.

A steady, disciplined MP whose most notable recent work sits outside the voting lobby. Slaughter chairs the Justice Committee, and his highest-profile recent coverage was chairing the pre-appointment hearing for the Legal Services Board chair -- routine committee work, but consistent with a longstanding focus on legal and criminal justice affairs. His constituency engagement has been broad: local news from early 2026 shows him active across community events, school visits, and meetings on issues from foodbank use to asylum. Transport in the area -- notably the long-running Hammersmith Bridge saga -- generates the most local press, though that campaign has been led by a neighbouring MP.

His voting record is a 100% party-line one across 468 votes, the most loyal alignment possible. He votes with Labour on fiscal measures, workers' rights, and progressive taxation, and backed the government's position on all four ping-pong votes on the English Devolution Bill and the Pension Schemes Bill reserve power. His stance profile marks him as sharply sceptical of Lords scrutiny (0% aligned) and parliamentary scrutiny mechanisms (8% aligned), and relatively cautious on welfare expansion and disability benefits -- both sitting below the Labour average by around 9--12 percentage points. He also leans more against assisted dying than the average Labour MP.

His 222 contributions across 151 debates put him above the parliamentary average, and the subject spread underlines the Justice Committee role: crime accounts for by far the largest share of his speeches, followed by defence, social care, and the economy. He has sat for Hammersmith since 2005, giving him two decades of accumulated local knowledge. The main gap in available data is detailed debate content, which limits assessment of where -- if anywhere -- his arguments diverge from the party line even when his votes do not.