Dan Carden.

All five of Dan Carden's rebel votes this parliament fell on the same day — June 2025, when he voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at Third Reading and broke with the Labour majority on several amendments. He backed tighter safeguards, including a clause that would have barred applications where the wish to die was substantially driven by factors such as mental illness, disability, or financial hardship — a clause the party majority rejected. His overall voting record is 97.3% in line with Labour, making this a rare and deliberate defection on a matter of conscience rather than a pattern of dissent.

Beyond assisted dying, Carden is a 97% party-line voter who sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee and has spoken most frequently on defence and the economy. He backed railway renationalisation and voted with the government on the National Security (State Threats) Bill. His participation rate — 60% of votes — is below the Commons average, though committee work and speech activity (65 contributions across 44 debates) suggest engagement beyond the division lobbies. He deviates from his party most sharply on assisted dying access (-44 percentage points below the Labour average) and Lords reform, where he sits above it.

Personal experience has visibly shaped his priorities. He has spoken openly about his own alcohol addiction and campaigned on alcohol harm policy; he introduced a private member's bill on the right to visit relatives in care settings after being unable to see his dying father during the pandemic. High-impact news coverage clusters around these issues rather than his constituency voting record. Recent 90-day coverage is largely local and cultural, with little political content. Data on his committee contributions is not available here.