South Dorset.

Elected in 2024, Lloyd Hatton has built a visible record of constituency campaigning, with his most notable actions playing out in local news rather than Westminster rebellions. He secured £3.8m for a new SEND school on Portland after a year of sustained advocacy -- including a question to the Prime Minister at PMQs -- and has spent 18 months lobbying five ministers across three departments to back the MEMO Portland regeneration project, a scheme he says could deliver 100 jobs and a tourism boost. His one rebel vote, against the government's revised medical device fee regulations in January 2026, put him on the side of small life-sciences businesses the government itself acknowledged had been poorly served by its original proposals.

At 85% voting participation -- slightly above the Commons average -- and 99.8% party-line alignment, Hatton is a loyal but engaged backbencher. His speeches cluster around economy and jobs, local government, health, fiscal policy and social care, consistent with the constituency battles he fights publicly. He deviates from his Labour colleagues most sharply on public health (33% vs the party's 12% alignment), and sits below the party average on criminal justice reform and assisted dying safeguards -- though both gaps reflect small sample sizes rather than sustained dissent.

Hatton sits on the Public Accounts Committee, giving him a formal role scrutinising government spending -- relevant context for his local funding campaigns. News coverage over the past 90 days is high in volume (133 articles) but neutral in sentiment, spanning culture, crime, and the local economy; no single controversy or scandal dominates. His profile is that of an active constituency MP whose energy goes into local delivery rather than parliamentary rebellion.