Graham Stringer.

Stringer broke with Labour three times in January 2026 to back Lords amendments to the Chagos Islands deal, voting against the government's push to reject safeguards on treaty costs, parliamentary oversight, and a renegotiation trigger. He also voted twice against the welfare reform bill in 2025 — first supporting a procedural wrecking amendment at Second Reading, then opposing the bill at Third Reading. Those five rebel votes make him one of the more consistent dissenters on his Labour benches, placing him 99 percentage points below his party on the Chagos treaty and 90 points below on welfare reform. He has also drawn attention for hosting a Commons meeting at which a doctor warned of a possible cancer link to Covid boosters, a move some observers viewed as amplifying contested science.

His participation rate of 56% sits below the Commons average, though long-serving MPs often prioritise constituency and committee work over floor votes. Where he does vote, he is a 94.5% party-line MP on most issues. His speeches — 166 contributions across 77 debates — lean heavily toward the economy, local government, fiscal policy, and crime, consistent with the concerns of a North West constituency MP first elected in 1997. He scores notably low on pro-parliamentary-scrutiny votes (7%) and pro-civil-liberties votes (15%), despite his rebel stance on treaty oversight.

Stringer sits on the Panel of Chairs, which gives him a procedural role managing Public Bill Committees rather than a subject-specific brief. His stance on assisted dying tilts toward restriction relative to his party, and he votes below the Labour average on climate action. Local news coverage over the past 90 days is largely incidental — he appears in crime and health stories but drives few of them. Voting and speech data underpin this briefing; committee inquiry records are not available here.