Jon Trickett.

One of Labour's more persistent backbench rebels, Jon Trickett has broken with his party five times since July 2025 — more than most Labour MPs. His rebel votes cluster around a clear theme: civil liberties and welfare. He voted against the Courts and Tribunals Bill's removal of jury trial rights, opposed expanded Public Order Act protest regulations twice, and was among the Labour MPs who voted against the Universal Credit and PIP Bill at Third Reading and backed an amendment to protect inflation-linked disability benefits. Most recently, he voted against accepting Lords amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill, joining Andy McDonald's group objecting that a clause restricting protest rights was bundled into the package rather than put to a separate vote.

At 74% voting participation — slightly below the Commons average — Trickett is a 96.9% party-line voter overall, but his deviations are deliberate. His stance profile places him 65 percentage points below Labour's average on welfare reform and 59 points above on opposing disability benefit cuts. He backs progressive taxation at every opportunity and workers' rights at 83%, but scores just 15% on parliamentary scrutiny measures and 22% on tough-on-crime votes. His 71 speech contributions span economy and jobs, local government, cost of living, and health — a picture of a left-leaning MP focused on working-class constituents.

Context reinforces that picture. Trickett holds no committee seat, but his interventions outside Westminster have been prominent: he wrote a Guardian piece opposing winter fuel cuts, tabled an Early Day Motion over a mining museum strike in his patch, and campaigned publicly on Yorkshire infrastructure and a local clock tower heritage dispute. His constituency — centred on former coalfield communities around Normanton and Hemsworth — directly shapes his priorities. News coverage over the past 90 days is thinner, with recent articles focused on local planning and heritage rather than national politics.