Hazel Grove.

Hazel Grove's MP has broken with her party twice on assisted dying, voting in June 2025 for stricter safeguards -- including stronger advertising restrictions and clearer guidance requirements -- than the Liberal Democrats' majority supported. More recently, she backed referring Keir Starmer to the Privileges Committee over the Mandelson appointment and opposed government regulations that would strip asylum seekers of support for working illegally, both orthodox Lib Dem positions but notable signals of where she invests her energy. In April 2026 she also sided with the Lords on both the English Devolution Bill and the Pension Schemes Bill, consistent with her near-perfect record of backing upper-chamber scrutiny.

Smart's participation rate sits at 65%, below the Commons average, though first-term MPs with large caseloads sometimes post lower figures. When she votes, she follows her party 99.4% of the time -- the assisted dying divisions are the clear exceptions. Her stance profile marks her as distinctly more sceptical of workers'-rights and progressive-taxation measures than a typical Lib Dem, while she scores well above her party average on pension protection, civil liberties, and criminal-justice reform. Her 404 parliamentary contributions span economy and jobs, local government, crime, and social care -- broad rather than narrowly specialist. She holds no committee seat.

Smart replaced William Wragg, who resigned amid a blackmail scandal, and won the seat in July 2024. She attracted negative coverage before the election for a remark stereotyping Liverpool residents while canvassing, though she apologised. Since then, local press coverage has been mildly positive -- she has backed rail-freight proposals and spoken out on crypto donation reform -- with crime and housing generating the most neutral local reporting. No committee data is available to indicate a formal specialist focus.