Alicia Kearns.

One of the most distinctive votes from any Conservative MP this Parliament came on 20 June 2025, when Kearns backed the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at Third Reading — breaking from the majority of her Conservative colleagues, who opposed it. Her position on the bill was more nuanced than a simple yes: she voted against two amendments that would have added explicit disqualifiers around mental illness, disability, and financial hardship, suggesting she judged those safeguards either unworkable or unnecessary, while supporting a requirement to assess palliative care provision in annual reports. More recently, in June 2026 she voted for amendments to the National Security (State Threats) Bill aimed at preserving judicial oversight, and opposed the government's timetable motion — consistent with her strong pro-parliamentary-scrutiny stance (87% aligned). On assisted dying she sits 64 percentage points above her party's average on access, a gap that marks her as one of the Commons' clearest Conservative outliers on the issue.

Her participation rate of 63% sits below the Commons average, though her 299 contributions across 109 debates suggest she is active when present. Defence dominates her speech topics (47 contributions), followed by economy and jobs (39), crime (20), and social care (19). She votes with the Conservative Party line 96% of the time overall, but deviates notably on climate action (56% aligned versus a party average of 33%) and public health (40% versus 9%).

Away from the chamber, local coverage has been strongly positive: she spent five years championing Benedict's Law — child safety legislation prompted by the death of a five-year-old in her constituency — and publicly expressed relief when the government adopted it in March 2026. She also raised the viability of local pubs at PMQs and secured a ministerial meeting on Rutland's county status. Kearns sits on the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. Voting data covers the period since her election in December 2019; news sentiment data draws on the past 90 days.