Honiton and Sidmouth.

Foord's most striking recent move was backing both new clauses of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in June 2025 -- breaking with his Lib Dem colleagues and signalling clear support for assisted dying access, in a vote where the party majority went the other way. His profile on the issue diverges notably from Lib Dem norms: he is more pro-assisted-dying-access than his party average and less anti-assisted-dying. Away from that conscience vote, he has been loudly local -- raising flood funding at PMQs, writing to NHS leadership about five East Devon community hospitals, challenging house-building plans without rail investment, and launching a petition against weakened flood-protection rules.

At 58% voting participation he sits meaningfully below the Commons average. Where he does vote, he is a 99.3% party-line MP -- the assisted dying clauses are his only recorded rebel votes. His speeches are voluminous (427 contributions across 320 debates), clustering around economy and jobs, defence, local government, and health. His armed-forces-welfare voting is 43 percentage points above his party's average -- consistent with his background as a former army officer, which also explains his role on the Foreign Affairs Committee, where he has been publicly vocal about the legal limits of US access to British military bases in any strike on Iran.

His Foreign Affairs Committee membership gives him a platform beyond constituency work, and his defence expertise shapes how he engages on foreign-policy questions. Local news coverage -- 47 articles in 90 days -- is largely neutral in tone, dominated by transport and community stories rather than controversy. The low average sentiment score reflects volume and routine coverage rather than negative press. Voting data and speech records are available through mid-2026; committee evidence sessions are not captured in this dataset.