Anneliese Midgley.

Anneliese Midgley's most distinctive parliamentary activity has been her consistent opposition to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill — one of only a handful of Labour MPs to vote against the bill at every available opportunity. She voted no at Third Reading in June 2025, opposed the bill's final Commons passage, and at Report Stage voted for additional safeguards and devolution protections that the bill's sponsor rejected. Across five rebel votes, all on assisted dying, she sits at 0% alignment with her party on assisted dying access and 100% on restrictions — a 58-percentage-point gap from the Labour average. Outside that issue, she has rarely broken from the whip.

Her overall voting participation stands at 78%, slightly below the Commons average. She votes with Labour on 98.2% of divisions and shows strong alignment with workers' rights, progressive taxation, and housing development. Her speeches — 112 contributions across 82 debates since 2024 — concentrate heavily on economy and jobs, crime, social care, and labour market issues. She sits on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, though her speech record suggests local economic and social concerns dominate her attention.

Locally, Midgley has attracted positive press for constituency campaigning: she raised industrial pollution affecting Kirkby residents in Parliament and is credited by locals with helping trigger enforcement action against two sites. She has also pushed for transport improvements on bus and rail and questioned the Prime Minister directly on the Hillsborough law commitment. News coverage over the past 90 days is high in volume — 120 articles — but average sentiment scores are near zero, suggesting factual rather than evaluative reporting. Voting and speech data are available from July 2024 onwards.