Jessica Toale.

Bournemouth West's MP has broken with Labour twice on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, voting in favour of a devolution clause and an employer conscience amendment that the bill's sponsor opposed — placing Toale among the more restrictive voices on assisted dying within her party, 22 percentage points above the Labour average on that measure. Beyond Parliament, she secured £20 million for the deprived West Howe area and has championed local community-led politics through a constituency summer school, generating consistently positive local press coverage on economy and knife crime.

Toale votes with Labour 99.6% of the time across 450 of 570 votes — a participation rate that sits modestly below the Commons average — and her recent record is orthodox Labour: backing employment tribunal reforms, carbon budget legislation, and progressive taxation (100% aligned). Her speeches concentrate on economy and jobs, social care, and local government, with crime and health also featuring heavily. She votes firmly against Lords scrutiny amendments and measures framed as pro-business or tough-on-crime, broadly in line with her party.

The picture that emerges is of an active constituency MP — securing funding, organising local initiatives, escalating casework to regulators like Ofcom — who is otherwise a reliable Labour loyalist with one clear independent streak on assisted dying. She holds no select committee seat, which limits her formal parliamentary influence. Recent local news is dominated by culture and sport coverage (twelve articles, minimal MP involvement), suggesting her higher-profile local interventions are episodic rather than sustained. Data on her full speech record is available; rebel vote data covers the current parliament only.