Josh Newbury.

One thing stands out about Josh Newbury: in November 2025 he delivered a speech in the Commons disclosing his own experience as a survivor of male rape. Widely reported and praised, it drew attention to a topic rarely aired in parliament. On assisted dying he has been a consistent rebel — voting against the bill at Third Reading in June 2025, against two of its amendments, and opposing a further requirement to assess palliative care provision. He also broke with his party on a Liberal Democrat motion to require the government to negotiate a UK-EU customs union, voting against where Labour voted in favour.

At 85% voting participation and 97.5% party alignment, Newbury is an engaged but broadly loyal MP. His stances diverge from Labour's average most sharply on assisted dying, where he sits 36 percentage points below his colleagues on supporting access, and 21 points above them on opposing it outright. His voting record shows strong alignment with workers' rights and progressive taxation, and near-zero alignment with positions coded as pro-business, pro-civil-liberties, or anti-tax. He has made 238 contributions across 166 debates, with economy and jobs, local government, and health the dominant topics.

He sits on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, consistent with agriculture and environment featuring heavily in his speeches. A March 2026 debate he led on NHS provision for hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome patients illustrates a recurring pattern: raising specific healthcare gaps with constituency cases as evidence. Local coverage has been positive, including his opening of a new banking hub in Rugeley. No rebel votes have been recorded in 2026 to date. His voting data goes back to July 2024.