Hastings and Rye.

Dollimore has been most visible recently as a local campaigner rather than a parliamentary rebel. She secured over £1 million in government funding for Hastings playgrounds -- auditing closures herself, raising the issue in Parliament and the national press, and consulting children directly on what they wanted built. She followed that with a packed public meeting challenging Stagecoach and the council over bus reliability and fares. The most newsworthy deviation from the Labour line, however, came on assisted dying: she voted twice to strengthen the Terminally Ill Adults Bill beyond what its sponsor proposed, backing tighter advertising restrictions and continuity of doctor assessments -- placing her among MPs who supported the bill but wanted stricter safeguards.

At 77% participation she sits somewhat below the Commons average, though her 99.2% party alignment makes her a reliable government loyalist on most votes. Her one notable outlier away from assisted dying was opposing the Liberal Democrat motion on proportional representation in December 2024 -- a stance against her party's own reformist wing. Her speeches cluster around economy and jobs, local government, environment and health, consistent with a first-term MP focused on constituency bread-and-butter issues. Stance data shows she scores well above Labour's average on child welfare and civil liberties, and below it on armed forces welfare.

Her strongest independent signals are on assisted dying (more pro-access than her party average, but also more cautious about safeguards) and local infrastructure. She sits on the Statutory Instruments Select Committee, a scrutiny role that rarely generates headlines. Most of her coverage is local and positive, driven by the playground campaign; broader news data across 115 articles in 90 days is mixed, with crime and culture stories making up the bulk of Hastings coverage rather than Dollimore's own activity.