Graeme Downie.

Graeme Downie has spent much of the past year securing concrete investment for his constituency rather than making waves in Westminster. He successfully campaigned for £3 million towards a Rosyth-Europe ferry link and a £5 million share of a UK defence growth deal for the Rosyth innovation hub — locally significant wins he pursued through direct ministerial engagement. In parliament, he has backed the government's Immigration and Asylum Bill at Second Reading, supported planning reforms that remove elected councillors from decisions on smaller housing applications, and voted with Labour to reject opposition motions on defence spending and puberty blockers.

Downie votes with Labour on every recorded division — a 100% party-line record — and his 64% participation rate sits below the Commons average, though this partly reflects the competing demands of active constituency work. His speeches cluster heavily around economy and jobs (81 contributions), defence (64), and energy (28), a pattern consistent with Rosyth's naval heritage and his seat on the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee. His stance profile shows low alignment with civil liberties positions (7%) and local democratic control (32%) — both below his own party's average — suggesting he reliably backs central government authority over devolved or local decision-making.

The clearest deviation from his parliamentary colleagues sits on assisted dying: he votes in favour of access at 89%, against the party average of 58%, placing him among Labour's more consistently permissive voices on that issue. His public health alignment (63%) also runs above the party average. Local news coverage over the past year has been broadly positive, centred on economic development. Voting and speech data are available from July 2024; news sentiment data for the most recent 90 days is limited.