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Pochin made national headlines in March 2026 after journalists reported she made transphobic and Islamophobic jokes -- described as a "tartan burka" remark -- at a Reform UK conference event, with one attendee writing that nothing had "prepared me for quite how hateful" the gathering was. The coverage was severely negative and directly named her as the source of comments designed, critics said, to incite hatred. That episode sits alongside a rebels' record worth noting: she backed the Railways Bill at Second Reading -- supporting rail nationalisation against her party -- and broke with Reform on multiple assisted dying votes in June 2025, consistently voting to tighten the bill's eligibility criteria rather than oppose it outright.

At 60% voting participation she attends roughly three in five divisions, below the Commons average. She votes with Reform UK 96% of the time and shows the party's characteristic stances: opposing workers' rights, housing development, progressive taxation, and criminal justice reform. But she deviates notably on assisted dying -- voting more restrictively than her party average -- and scores higher than Reform colleagues on civil liberties. Her 96 parliamentary contributions have focused heavily on crime (29 debates), defence, and immigration, and she drew positive local coverage in March for using her judicial background to attack jury reform legislation in a substantive Commons speech.

Her background as a former judge directly informs her crime and justice focus in Parliament. She holds no select committee seats. Local news coverage over the past 90 days -- 144 articles -- has been broadly neutral on policy matters, with crime dominating, but the MP-performance stories pulled her average score negative, reflecting the conference controversy. No independent polling data on local approval is available.