Lillian Jones.

Lillian Jones has broken most sharply from her party on assisted dying. On 20 June 2025 she voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at Third Reading, backed two amendments that would have disqualified applicants motivated by financial pressure, disability, or fear of being a burden, and voted against a requirement to assess palliative care provision in annual reports — placing her well outside Labour's majority position on all four divisions. More recently, she defied the whip again in July 2025 to support extending welfare protections to people with fluctuating lifelong conditions such as Parkinson's and ME under the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill. Local coverage has been largely positive: the Cumnock Chronicle credited her with helping shift government policy on inherited farmland tax after she raised concerns with rural constituents.

At 64% voting participation she falls noticeably below the Commons average. Where she does vote, she is a 96% party-line MP — reliable on workers' rights, public ownership, and progressive taxation, and firmly against immigration control measures and fossil fuel subsidies. Her speeches cluster around economy and jobs, defence, fiscal policy, and health, with 71 contributions across 55 debates since 2024. On defence she has voted with government on recent Armed Forces Bill and National Security Bill divisions, consistent with her speech activity in that area.

Jones sits on both the Finance Committee and the Scottish Affairs Committee, which frames her consistent focus on economic delivery for Scotland and local government. Her deviation from Labour on assisted dying is the most statistically significant gap in her record — 47 percentage points below the party average on access, 33 points above on restrictions. News data for the most recent 90 days is insufficient to assess current local sentiment.