Kate Osborne.

One of Labour's more rebellious backbenchers, Kate Osborne has broken with her party five times since January 2025 — a meaningful dissent record for a 95.9% party-line voter. Her most striking rebel vote came in April 2026, when she backed a cross-party motion to refer Keir Starmer to the Privileges Committee over the Peter Mandelson appointment — a direct challenge to her own leader, opposed by a three-line whip. She also voted against tuition fee rises, expanded protest powers targeting infrastructure disruption, and a planning regulations vote in July 2026. In August 2025, the parliamentary expenses watchdog opened an inquiry into her spending — an investigation that, while unresolved in available data, generated significant negative coverage.

Her voting record reveals consistent left-leaning priorities: 100% aligned on progressive taxation, strong on workers' rights, and markedly more resistant to welfare and disability benefit cuts than her parliamentary colleagues — deviating from Labour's average by nearly 60 percentage points on those measures. She participates in 60% of votes, below the Commons average, though she has been active in speeches covering social care, health, the economy, and cost of living. She voted with Labour to nationalise the railways and backed extensions to employment tribunal time limits for workers.

Osborne has no current committee seat, limiting her formal parliamentary scrutiny role — her 9% alignment score on parliamentary scrutiny votes reflects this. Locally, she has been prominent in securing regeneration funding for Jarrow, including a reported £20 million investment, and is championing the 90th anniversary of the Jarrow Crusade. News sentiment over the past 90 days is broadly neutral across 48 articles. No recent speech data is available beyond May 2026.