Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland.

Luke Myer's most notable recent move was a proposal to make it a criminal offence for politicians to lie -- a bill that attracted cross-party backing and national coverage from the BBC, Teesside Live and Birmingham Live in January 2026. That instinct for parliamentary accountability sharpened further in April, when he broke with his party to vote for referring Prime Minister Starmer to the Privileges Committee over allegations that Starmer misled Parliament on Peter Mandelson's appointment. He also rebelled against the government on the EU customs union vote in December 2025 -- a notable step for a Labour MP -- and voted with reformers on several assisted dying amendments in summer 2025.

At 88% voting participation and 98.5% party alignment, Myer broadly follows the Labour line, but his deviations are purposeful rather than random. He consistently backs assisted dying safeguards -- voting for restrictions on eligibility loopholes -- scoring 53 percentage points above his party's average on that dimension. His speeches concentrate on economy and jobs, local government, defence and crime, with steel a recurring local theme: he publicly backed the "Save Steel, Buy British" campaign in October 2025 and voted against a reasoned amendment seeking to block steel nationalisation in May 2026. He scores low on pro-business and pro-parliamentary-scrutiny metrics as defined by the dataset, though his accountability bill pushes against that second figure.

Myer holds no select committee seats, which limits his formal scrutiny role. Local news coverage over the past 90 days is high in volume -- 76 articles -- but broadly neutral in tone, spanning crime, culture and transport rather than controversy. The accountability bill and his Privileges Committee rebel vote are the clearest signals of where he is willing to diverge from the government. Voting data runs to May 2026; speech and news data are similarly current.