Hornchurch and Upminster.

A consistent party-line voter, Julia Lopez has spent recent weeks performing standard opposition duties -- backing Conservative amendments to the King's Speech, voting to block the Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill, and supporting the referral of Keir Starmer to the Privileges Committee over the Mandelson appointment. None of these represent departures from her party; she has not cast a single rebel vote since the 2024 election. Her most distinctive recent vote was opposing the government's reserve power to direct pension fund investments, a provision the Lords rejected three times before the Commons restored it.

Her voting participation sits at 73% -- somewhat below the Commons average -- and her stance profile is strongly Conservative in shape: near-total alignment with pro-business and anti-employer-NI-increase positions, and consistent opposition to workers' rights and progressive taxation measures. Her speeches, spread across 111 contributions in 56 debates, concentrate on economy and jobs, crime, education, and immigration. She deviates from her party's average on armed forces welfare votes, backing that position around 20 percentage points less often than her colleagues, though the reasons are unclear from available data.

Outside Westminster, Lopez's local profile is active. She led a successful campaign to save Harold Hill Post Office from closure, has hosted eleven job and training fairs at the Queen's Theatre, lobbied Health Secretary Wes Streeting directly on A&E conditions at Queen's Hospital, and formally opposed a contested Rainham quarry development. Local news coverage over the past 90 days is high-volume but broadly neutral across housing, local government, and crime stories. She holds no committee seats in the current Parliament.