Helen Grant.

Twice breaking Conservative ranks to back the cross-party Tobacco and Vapes Bill — at both Second Reading in November 2024 and Third Reading in March 2025 — Helen Grant is otherwise one of the most loyal MPs on her benches, voting with the Conservative majority 99.3% of the time. More recently she has voted with her party on defence spending motions, backed amendments preserving judicial oversight in the National Security (State Threats) Bill, and opposed timetabling restrictions on that legislation. On constituencies issues, local news coverage shows her lobbying police chiefs over antisocial behaviour in Kings Hill, joining fellow MPs in calling for a water company CEO's removal after service outages, and writing to councillors opposing large housing developments her constituents contest.

Her participation rate of 53% — roughly 291 of 554 votes — sits below the Commons average, though no committee work currently accounts for that gap. In speeches, crime dominates (15 contributions), followed by social care, the economy, and health. Her voting profile is conventionally Conservative: strongly anti-tax-increases, pro-business, and tough on crime. She sits notably to the right of her own party average on assisted dying (voting against access where a quarter of Conservative MPs supported it) and is more sceptical than party colleagues on criminal justice reform and civil liberties.

Grant has held the Maidstone and Malling seat since 2010 and brings a legal background — she was a solicitor and barrister — which may inform her focus on crime and her instinct to preserve judicial oversight in security legislation. No committee membership is recorded in the current data. The news sentiment scores across 72 recent articles average close to neutral, reflecting routine local coverage rather than controversy; the high-impact stories all show her engaged on constituent casework rather than national controversy.