Gill Furniss.

Gill Furniss broke from Labour five times on 20 June 2025, voting against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at Third Reading and opposing several amendments — including one that would have barred people from qualifying for assisted dying if their wish to die was motivated by feeling a burden on others, a disability, or lack of care access. She supported that protective amendment while rejecting the bill overall, placing her among the more cautious Labour voices on assisted dying — a stance that sits roughly 21 percentage points above her party's average on this issue.

Beyond that rebellion, she is a largely loyal government MP, voting with Labour on 98.6% of divisions and participating in 75% of votes — broadly in line with the Commons average. Her speeches concentrate on social care, jobs, health, and local government, and she chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Debt and Financial Inclusion, hosting stakeholder roundtables on financial hardship. Her voting record shows she is more aligned with fossil fuel restrictions and NHS funding than the average Labour MP, and notably less aligned with welfare expansion and civil liberties measures. She has previously attracted coverage for criticising the Ministry of Defence's treatment of veterans and co-signing a parliamentary letter challenging Sky over job loss communications.

She sits on four committees — Privileges, Standards, Procedure, and the Panel of Chairs — giving her a role in parliamentary governance as well as scrutiny. Her recent news coverage is high in volume but low in impact, dominated by local culture and sport stories rather than policy controversy. Voting data is drawn from parliamentary records; speech topics are categorised from Hansard contributions.