Henley and Thame.

A constituency-focused newcomer, Freddie van Mierlo has spent much of his first two years as MP for Henley and Thame fighting local battles: lobbying successfully to keep a fire engine at a "strategically important" station, handing a greenway petition to Downing Street, and hosting a Westminster debate on National Trails funding. In Parliament, he backed a motion to refer Prime Minister Keir Starmer to the Privileges Committee over the Mandelson appointment -- a vote in which the Liberal Democrats sided with the opposition -- and voted against government powers to direct pension fund investments, consistently supporting Lords amendments to protect smaller pension schemes from forced mergers.

His parliamentary participation rate is low: he has voted in 43% of divisions, well below the Commons average. Where he does vote, he follows his party exactly -- 100% alignment, with no rebel votes. His voting pattern places him firmly against fiscal tightening (19% aligned with fiscal-responsibility stances) and closer to welfare expansion and climate action. The most striking deviation from Liberal Democrat norms is on pension protection, where he votes 64 percentage points below his party's average -- explained by his consistent opposition to the Pension Schemes Bill's government-direction provisions. He has spoken across 95 debates, with economy, health, and local government dominating.

Van Mierlo sits on the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, though his speech record skews more toward social care and cost-of-living than technology policy. His news coverage is largely positive on constituency casework. The low participation rate is the main caveat: nearly three in five votes go uncast, which limits how complete a picture the voting data provides.