Walthamstow.

Stella Creasy made headlines in early April after posting a silent disco video that drew both sympathy and mockery -- she wrote in the Guardian that the abuse she received for simply dancing illustrated how toxic hostility toward politicians has become. More substantively, she was among the Labour rebels who voted against the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill at three separate stages in July 2025, backing amendments to protect disabled people with fluctuating conditions and opposing what critics called cuts that preceded a promised review. She also voted against government regulations in January 2026 expanding the Public Order Act to criminalise infrastructure protest -- a civil liberties dissent that puts her at odds with most of her parliamentary party.

Her overall voting record marks her as a 98.4% party-line MP across 432 votes, but her deviations are concentrated and deliberate. She is 92 percentage points more likely to vote for disability benefit protections than the average Labour MP, and 83 points less likely to back welfare reform as the party has framed it. On parliamentary and Lords scrutiny she votes with the government almost without exception, and her low scores on crime and business issues reflect consistent opposition to tougher enforcement measures and market-oriented policies. She speaks frequently -- 286 contributions across 156 debates -- with economy, defence, social care, and immigration dominating her topics.

Creasy holds no current committee seat, which limits one formal avenue for specialist influence. Her speech volume is well above the Commons average and her welfare-related deviations from Labour are among the most pronounced of any backbencher in this parliament. Local news coverage over the past 90 days is high in volume but neutral in tone, dominated by crime and community stories in which she does not appear directly.