Daisy Cooper.

A near-perfect party loyalist with one notable break, Cooper voted with the Liberal Democrats on 99.8% of divisions — but crossed the line in June 2025 to support a new clause on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill concerning devolution, backing protections for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland's legislative competence on assisted dying. More recently she voted against the Immigration and Asylum Bill at Second Reading and opposed regulations requiring planning officers rather than councillors to decide smaller applications — consistent with her strong record on parliamentary scrutiny (92% aligned) and local democracy. Recent news highlights active constituency work: she joined a 130,000-signature petition on children's rights sent to Downing Street, visited local care providers to press on social care pressures, and campaigned for CPR training in Hertfordshire schools.

Cooper's voting participation sits at 72% — below the Commons average — though her speech record is substantial, with 295 contributions across 149 debates. Her most frequent topics are economic policy, fiscal issues, and cost of living, with recurring focus on social care and health. Her stance profile shows strong alignment with climate action (85%), business interests (78%), and civil liberties (80%), while she diverges sharply from the government on fiscal and taxation questions (7% and 16% aligned respectively). She sits slightly below her party on child welfare and tougher crime measures.

Cooper holds no select committee seat, which limits some of the formal scrutiny work that shapes parliamentary influence. Her deviations from party average are modest — marginally more sympathetic to Brexit sovereignty arguments, slightly less aligned on anti-private-school VAT — but none signal a consistent ideological divergence. Local news coverage over the past 90 days is largely neutral in tone across 31 articles, with crime and culture the most-covered issues. No committee data or detailed speech transcripts were available for all periods reviewed.