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Olney's most distinctive recent votes came on the assisted dying bill in June 2025, where she broke with her party four times on Report Stage amendments. She voted to close the loophole that would allow voluntary starvation to qualify someone as terminally ill -- a position her party majority rejected -- and backed a procedural amendment ensuring continuity of medical assessment if a doctor becomes incapacitated. Her deviations from the Liberal Democrat line on end-of-life autonomy and safeguards are the largest recorded gaps in her stance profile, suggesting a more cautious position on the bill than most of her colleagues. More recently, she backed the Liberal Democrats in voting against the government's King's Speech in May 2026 and supported referring the Prime Minister to the Privileges Committee over the Mandelson appointment.

At 62% voting participation, Olney is below the Commons average. Within those votes she is a 96% party-line voter, with her clearest consistent positions being full alignment with pro-parliamentary and pro-Lords scrutiny stances, and strong opposition to housing development. She speaks frequently -- 525 contributions across 220 debates -- with the economy, social care, health, and fiscal policy dominating her topics. Her membership of the Public Accounts Committee fits a pattern of close attention to public spending.

Local news coverage over the past 90 days is broadly neutral across 19 articles spanning health, crime, housing, and transport -- no single story dominates. Older coverage flags her campaign to reduce court transcript costs for crime victims, a cause that drew cross-party support. The most reliable data here covers voting and speech activity; news sentiment scores are near zero throughout, indicating little strongly positive or negative local press.