Antonia Bance.

Antonia Bance's most distinctive act in this parliament was opposing assisted dying at every turn. On 20 June 2025 she cast five rebel votes against her own party on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill — voting against Third Reading to block the bill outright, backing a new clause that would have disqualified applicants motivated by fear of being a burden, and opposing pro-access amendments. Her voting record places her 47 percentage points below her party on assisted dying access, and 33 points above it on restrictions — one of the sharpest individual deviations from Labour's centre of gravity on that issue.

Beyond that rebellion, Bance is a 96.9% party-line voter and speaks frequently, with 150 contributions across 75 debates. Her speeches cluster around the economy, jobs, fiscal policy, and social care — consistent with a Black Country constituency hit by industrial pressures. Her participation rate of 71% sits below the Commons average. She scores strongly on workers' rights (92%) and progressive taxation (100%), but low on civil liberties (17%) and parliamentary scrutiny (12%), the latter reflecting near-total support for government timetabling and procedural motions. She sits on the Business and Trade Committee and its sub-committee on economic security and arms export controls.

In local coverage, Bance has been active on constituency casework: lobbying for SEND funding in Sandwell, opposing a large HMO near a primary school, pressing government on JLR supply chain job losses, and securing a ministerial commitment to tighten taxi licensing laws after raising child safeguarding concerns in parliament. News volume is high — 43 articles in 90 days — though sentiment scores are neutral, suggesting factual rather than evaluative reporting. No significant negative coverage is recorded.