Hexham.

A steady, loyalist first-term MP who has made constituency visibility his calling card. Joe Morris has voted with Labour on every recorded division -- a 100% party-line record across 441 votes -- and backed the government this week on the Privileges Committee referral motion against Keir Starmer, rejecting it as a political manoeuvre. His most distinctive stance in the data is a near-total opposition to Lords scrutiny (0% aligned) and parliamentary scrutiny more broadly (4% aligned), meaning he has consistently backed the government in overriding Lords amendments and resisting procedural checks -- a pattern visible again this week across multiple English Devolution and Children's Wellbeing Bill votes.

His 86% voting participation sits around the Commons average. Economy and jobs dominate his 220 parliamentary contributions, with local government, environment, social care, and education also featuring heavily. He deviates from his party most sharply on pension protection (voting against it where most Labour MPs back it) and leans slightly more restrictive than the Labour average on assisted dying. His strongest policy alignments are with progressive taxation (97%) and housing development (93%).

Outside the chamber, local coverage has been consistently positive. The Hexham Courant credited him with a concrete win on agricultural inheritance tax thresholds after a year of lobbying, and he secured a Prime Minister visit to a Newcastle school to discuss SEND reforms -- an issue he raised at PMQs. He reportedly held 71 surgeries and 130 business visits in his first period as MP. No committee memberships are recorded. Coverage across 64 articles in the past 90 days skews broadly neutral, with environment coverage the most positive strand.