Paisley and Renfrewshire South.

Johanna Baxter's most prominent move this year has been leading a parliamentary report into Russia's abduction of Ukrainian children -- a campaign serious enough that she was personally sanctioned by Moscow in response. She also successfully pushed for the release of a Paisley constituent, Scottish sailor Billy Hood, who had been jailed in Bahrain, securing a government commitment to facilitate his return after publicly criticising the Foreign Office's handling of the case. On assisted dying, she broke from the Labour majority five times in June 2025, voting to tighten eligibility safeguards -- particularly to close a potential loophole around voluntary starvation -- and to ensure procedural protections for applicants during the bill's Report Stage.

At 87% voting participation and 97.4% party alignment, she is an engaged but largely loyal MP. Her voting record shows strong support for workers' rights and progressive taxation, with lower alignment on crime and business-friendly measures. Speeches cluster around the economy, defence, and fiscal policy, with notable contributions on social care and health. Her deviations from party colleagues are most pronounced on pension protection, where she votes more protectively than roughly six in ten of her Labour peers, and on assisted dying safeguards, where she consistently favours stricter controls.

She sits on the Work and Pensions Committee, which aligns with her stated background in trade union work and her labour market speech activity. Her higher-profile news coverage -- the Ukraine sanctions story, the Bahrain consular case -- suggests a willingness to take on international humanitarian issues rather than confining herself to domestic constituency business. Data covers her activity since entering Parliament in July 2024; the voting record now spans roughly two years.