Heywood and Middleton North.

Blundell's most distinctive recent actions were five rebel votes on 20 June 2025, all on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. She backed amendments to close the loophole that would have allowed voluntary starvation to qualify someone as terminally ill -- voting against her party on four of those divisions and with it on one. Her stance on end-of-life issues sits 22 percentage points above the Labour average, the largest recorded deviation in her profile, suggesting a consistent position on assisted dying safeguards rather than an isolated break from the whip.

At 84% voting participation she sits broadly in line with the Commons average for a first-term MP. Her 97.7% party alignment makes her a reliable government loyalist outside that single cluster of conscience votes. Speeches concentrate on the economy and jobs, local government and social care -- topics that map directly onto Heywood and Middleton North's industrial and post-industrial challenges. She has pushed publicly for £1.5 million in council funds to be directed at town renewal in Middleton, raised housing concerns with Downing Street, and run a survey on men's mental health and NHS access. Her membership of the Transport Committee adds a formal policy focus beyond her constituency casework.

Her stance profile signals some tensions worth noting: she scores low on pro-business (11%) and pro-parliamentary-scrutiny (5%), and voted consistently against Lords amendments. Local news coverage over the past 90 days is high in volume -- 61 articles -- but dominated by crime stories with near-neutral sentiment, suggesting the issues driving coverage in her patch are not ones where she is setting the agenda. Voting data and speech records are available from her July 2024 election; news sentiment data covers the most recent 90 days.