Alison Taylor.

All five of Alison Taylor's rebel votes came on the same day — June 2025 — and all on the same issue: assisted dying. She voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at Third Reading, putting her among the minority who blocked its passage to the Lords, and backed two amendments that would have explicitly disqualified applicants whose wish to die was driven by fear of being a burden, a mental disorder, a disability, or lack of access to care. Her stance sits well outside the Labour mainstream: she aligns with pro-assisted-dying access positions just 13% of the time, against a party average of 58%.

Beyond assisted dying, Taylor is broadly a party-line voter — 95% alignment overall — though her participation rate of 46% is notably below the Commons average. Her voting record leans strongly toward workers' rights (95% aligned) and progressive taxation (100%), while she diverges from Labour on parliamentary scrutiny, supporting more scrutiny measures than most of her colleagues. Her speeches across 66 contributions span economy and jobs, local government, defence, and environment, suggesting a generalist constituency-focused workload rather than a single specialist brief. She holds no committee seats.

Taylor won Paisley and Renfrewshire North in July 2024, flipping it from the SNP. The available news coverage largely concerns her predecessor Gavin Newlands, so no distinct pattern of local reporting on Taylor herself has emerged yet. The low participation rate is worth watching — it may reflect the demands of a new MP finding their feet, or constituency and travel factors common among Scottish MPs — but insufficient data exists to draw firm conclusions. No recent news coverage from the past 90 days is available.