Weston-super-Mare.

Dan Aldridge has been delivering concrete results for Weston-super-Mare. He secured £19m in additional funding for the restoration of Birnbeck Pier, successfully lobbied for £150,000 to expand nursery provision at a local village school, and founded a summer school aimed at lifting the area's historically low university application rates. He has also intervened formally against the threatened closure of a local library and backed a national ban on plastic wet wipes -- partly driven by a local environmental campaign he leads. These wins, covered positively in local media, give him a track record of translating parliamentary access into constituency outcomes.

In the chamber, Aldridge votes with Labour on every recorded occasion -- a 100% party-line record -- though his participation rate of 70% sits below the Commons average. His speeches cluster around the economy, local government, health, and social care, consistent with his seat on the Business and Trade Committee and its sub-committee on economic security and arms export controls. His stance profile shows strong alignment with workers' rights and progressive taxation, low alignment with pro-business and tough-on-crime positions. He deviates from the Labour average on pension protection and NHS funding, where his voting record falls noticeably below his party's.

Local news coverage is broadly neutral in tone across a high volume of articles, with health stories generating the most positive sentiment. No rebel votes, no controversies, and no significant negative coverage mark his first two years. He is a first-term MP who arrived in July 2024 in what had been a safe Conservative seat, and the available data suggests he is prioritising visible constituency work over parliamentary profile-building.