Lowestoft.

Jess Asato made headlines in June 2025 for her votes on assisted dying, where she broke with the Labour majority on four of five divisions relating to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. Her rebel votes centred on safeguards -- she backed amendments to prevent voluntary starvation being used to meet terminal illness criteria, and supported procedural moves to allow further scrutiny of the Bill. She has also attracted consistently positive local coverage, most notably for securing a change in law to bar parents convicted of serious child sex offences from parental decisions, campaigning for later bus services on a key coastal route, and lobbying for improved dental access in Lowestoft -- including pushing for a UEA dental school.

At 82% voting participation and 96.9% party alignment, she votes with Labour on virtually everything outside assisted dying. Her stance profile shows strong support for workers' rights and progressive taxation, low alignment with pro-business positions, and near-zero support for Lords scrutiny. Her speeches -- 86 contributions across 57 debates -- cluster heavily around social care, crime, health, and education, which is consistent with her background in domestic abuse and child protection policy; she was appointed to an advisory role on tackling violence against women in late 2025. She sits on the Education Committee.

Her deviation from party averages is most pronounced on end-of-life autonomy and assisted dying safeguards, where she sits roughly 20 percentage points above her Labour colleagues. Local news coverage -- 123 articles in 90 days -- is broadly neutral in tone, with crime and transport dominating. Data covers her activity since entering Parliament in July 2024.