Chris Law.

Two high-profile blunders have made Chris Law one of the more talked-about SNP backbenchers in the past year — for the wrong reasons. In September 2025 he deleted a social media post that had inadvertently criticised his own party leader, John Swinney, for attending a Donald Trump state banquet; three months later he accidentally signed a parliamentary motion supporting Rupert Lowe's visa proposals before withdrawing his name. Set against those stumbles, he has also made headlines for tabling a motion backing Rockstar Games workers dismissed during a workplace dispute — consistent with his near-perfect alignment on trade union and workers' rights votes.

His parliamentary record is defined less by what he does in the chamber than by how often he is absent from it. A 27% voting participation rate places him well below the Commons average, though his 183 speech contributions across 121 debates suggest he engages selectively rather than disengaging entirely. When he does vote, he follows the SNP line almost without exception — 99.3% party alignment — and his stance data confirm hard opposition to immigration controls (0% aligned) and fiscal tightening (11% aligned), alongside strong support for workers' rights and lords reform. His single confirmed rebel vote came in November 2024, when he broke with the SNP to oppose new Northern Ireland pet travel regulations under the Windsor Framework.

His speech activity clusters around economy and jobs, defence, and the labour market, though no committee role currently gives him a formal platform on any of these. Local news coverage over the past 90 days is too thin to establish a reliable sentiment pattern. The accidental-motion and deleted-post incidents dominate his recent press, and both are catalogued here from Scottish outlets; readers should weigh that coverage accordingly.