Southport.

Southport's MP has been most visible on assisted dying, where he broke with most Labour colleagues five times in a single day in June 2025. All five rebel votes concerned the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Hurley backed amendments to close a loophole that might have allowed voluntary self-starvation to qualify someone as terminally ill, and supported procedural moves his party opposed. His stance data confirms the pattern -- he sits 22 percentage points above the Labour average on end-of-life autonomy. Beyond Westminster, he has led a sustained campaign for a children's A&E at Southport Hospital, drawing on personal experience: news coverage from January 2026 describes him making an emotional parliamentary speech about losing his father and wife to cancer and calling for better support for North West families.

At 91% voting participation and 97% party alignment, Hurley is an engaged and largely loyal MP. He votes strongly with Labour on workers' rights, progressive taxation and local government powers -- where he sits 26 points above the party average. He consistently votes against Lords amendments, scores just 12% on parliamentary scrutiny measures, and is low on pro-business votes, suggesting he follows the government's legislative programme closely. His speeches cluster around the economy and jobs, local government, health and social care, with crime also featuring heavily -- reflecting Southport's prominence in national crime coverage following the 2024 stabbing attack.

That attack shapes much of the local news context: around two-thirds of his recent press coverage concerns crime, though with near-zero sentiment scores suggesting reporting is largely factual rather than complimentary or critical. He has no committee roles. His voting record extends back only to 2024, so longer-term trend data is unavailable.