Jo Stevens.

Secretary of State for Wales since July 2024, Jo Stevens is a Cabinet minister — and that role defines almost everything about her recent parliamentary activity. She voted with the government on all recorded divisions, including supporting the 50% steel import tariff introduced in June 2026, a policy she has publicly championed as essential to protecting Welsh steelworkers. Her most prominent news coverage centres on that steel strategy: she was directly quoted insisting the tariff plans were not protectionist in the Trump mould, and credited with securing £80m for steel communities around Port Talbot. For Cardiff East constituents, she is most visible as Wales's advocate in Cabinet rather than as a backbench legislator.

Her voting participation sits at 65% — below the Commons average, which is typical for senior ministers whose time is absorbed by departmental duties rather than the chamber floor. She is a perfect 100% party-line voter with no rebel votes on record. Her speeches — 266 contributions across 55 debates — cluster around economy and jobs, local government, energy, and transport, all consistent with a Wales brief. Her stance data shows notably stronger support for assisted dying access than the Labour average (+28 percentage points), and she scores 100% on progressive taxation and energy security votes.

Stevens trained as a solicitor before entering parliament in 2015 and held shadow cabinet posts before Labour's 2024 election win. She holds no select committee roles, which is standard for Cabinet ministers. News coverage over the past 90 days is high in volume — 42 articles — but dominated by culture and sport stories carrying a near-zero sentiment score, suggesting routine coverage rather than controversy. Economic and cost-of-living stories carry more positive scores where they appear.