South Cotswolds.

A rebel vote on assisted dying is the most distinctive mark Savage has left on Parliament since her 2024 election. In June 2025 she broke with the Liberal Democrat majority to back a new clause to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill -- one of only a handful of departures from her party in two years. More recently she has voted with the Lib Dems to oppose government powers to direct pension fund investments, backed Lords amendments on English devolution, and supported referring Keir Starmer to the Privileges Committee over the Mandelson appointment. Locally, she has made headlines opposing centralised planning powers, a large solar scheme threatening Cotswolds countryside, and leading parliamentary debates on SEND provision and play-based learning -- a pattern of visible, constituency-rooted advocacy.

At 63% voting participation, Savage sits below the Commons average, though new MPs often build up gradually. She votes with the Liberal Democrats 99.7% of the time, making her effectively a party-line MP outside that single rebel vote. Her speeches cluster around economy and jobs, the environment, local government, and energy -- 184 contributions across 87 debates since July 2024. She scores notably higher than her party average on armed forces welfare and opposing benefit cuts, and lower on NHS funding and progressive taxation, though the vote counts underlying those deviations are relatively small.

Her membership of the Environmental Audit Committee and Petitions Committee fits the pattern: an MP who built her profile on ocean rowing and environmental campaigning is now channelling that background into scrutiny work on climate and constituent petitions. Before entering Parliament she held a doctorate, which she occasionally draws on in evidence-based arguments. News coverage over the past 90 days spans 131 articles, though most carry near-zero sentiment scores, suggesting routine local reporting rather than controversy or standout moments.