Kanishka Narayan has been the most consistent rebel on his Labour benches when it comes to assisted dying. He voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at Third Reading in June 2025 and backed a series of amendments during Report Stage — including clauses on devolution protections and tighter advertising restrictions — putting him firmly among the bill's opponents at nearly every opportunity. His voting record on this issue places him 55 percentage points above the Labour average on assisted dying restrictions, making it the sharpest divergence from his party in his short parliamentary career. Outside that issue, he has attracted scrutiny of a different kind: a 2025 Nation.Cymru report accused him of deleting inconvenient data from a transparency tool he had publicly championed, which sits awkwardly alongside his self-presentation as an accountability-focused MP.
A 77% voting participation rate sits modestly below the Commons average. Where he does vote, he follows Labour's line 98.9% of the time — a near-perfect party loyalist except on assisted dying. His 331 contributions span 55 debates, with economy and jobs his most frequent topic, followed by technology and defence. That emphasis reflects his ministerial roles: he was appointed Minister for Artificial Intelligence in September 2025 and subsequently took on the Online Safety brief, where he has been publicly active on child internet safety.
Those ministerial positions provide important context for his parliamentary profile. Committee work is absent from his record, which is typical for MPs holding government roles. His stance data shows strong alignment with progressive taxation and workers' rights, but notably low scores on civil liberties (14%) and parliamentary scrutiny (19%), which may interest constituents who care about checks on executive power. News coverage over the past 90 days is broadly neutral across 21 articles.
