Clive Lewis.

Clive Lewis has broken with Labour five times since July 2025, making him one of the more rebellious MPs on the government's backbenches. Most recently he voted against the Immigration and Asylum Bill at Second Reading — one of a small number of Labour MPs to reject the bill's core principles outright. He also voted against regulations shifting planning decisions away from elected councillors to officers, opposed the tuition fee rise, rejected expanded protest-curbing powers under the Public Order Act, and backed a rebel amendment to protect disability benefits from cuts. That last rebellion sits alongside a striking statistical gap: where nine in ten Labour MPs vote with the government on welfare reform, Lewis votes against it two times in three.

Beyond rebellions, Lewis is a 96.6% party-line voter overall, though his participation rate of 62% is below the Commons average. His speeches — 95 contributions across 37 debates since the last election — cluster around the economy, environment, utilities and social care. The utilities focus is not incidental: Lewis has used his private member's bill on water ownership to mount a sustained public campaign against privatisation, hosting a briefing for over 100 MPs alongside Channel 4's "Dirty Business" cast and writing prominent op-eds linking water industry failures to preventable deaths.

His deviations from Labour's voting average are sharpest on welfare protection (+59 percentage points above party average) and immigration control (-33 points below). He holds no committee seats, which limits his formal scrutiny role. Recent news coverage over the past 90 days is broadly neutral in tone. One negative story from late 2025 — in which he was accused of "taking voters for granted" over a reported offer to vacate his Norwich South seat for Andy Burnham — continues to shadow his local profile.