Andrew Cooper.

A loyal Labour vote with a visible local presence, Andrew Cooper's recent advocacy has ranged from naming overpriced petrol stations in open letters to company bosses, to lobbying alongside a fellow MP to unlock Treasury approval for the long-delayed Middlewich bypass — a campaign that succeeded in 2025. He has also met families to push for SEND funding improvements, and raised a constituent's case in Parliament after a rapist received what he considered an inadequate sentence. No rebel votes on record: Cooper has voted with Labour in every division since his election in July 2024.

At 92% participation — above the Commons average — he is an active presence in the division lobbies. His voting record shows strong alignment with Labour on fiscal responsibility and workers' rights; recent votes include supporting the extension of employment tribunal time limits to six months, backing both the Draft Carbon Budget Order and the associated carbon credit framework, and opposing opposition amendments to the Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill at committee stage. His stance profile puts him notably to the left of his party average on assisted dying access (+31 percentage points), and slightly more aligned with welfare reform than most Labour MPs.

Cooper sits on the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, which maps onto his most frequent speech topics: economy and jobs, local government, social care, health, and education together account for the bulk of his 182 parliamentary contributions across 131 debates. Recent local news coverage spans crime, culture and sport, and economic development — with Cooper publicly backing the area's "untapped potential" for cross-council growth. News sentiment data across the past 90 days is broadly neutral.