Liz Jarvis.

Jarvis has been one of the most locally visible Liberal Democrat MPs in the South East, campaigning successfully for a new Eastleigh police station, sponsoring legislation to protect chalk streams, and publicly calling for the removal of a Hampshire mayoral candidate who made offensive remarks about Muslims. Her one rebel vote — backing a devolution-focused amendment on the assisted dying bill in June 2025, against her party's majority — stands out in an otherwise near-perfect voting record of 99.8% party alignment.

Her participation rate of 74% sits below the Commons average, though her speech activity is substantial: 155 contributions across 99 debates, weighted heavily toward the economy and jobs, social care, health, and cost of living. Her voting profile places her firmly against the government's agenda — just 7% alignment on that measure — while strongly backing parliamentary and Lords scrutiny, climate action, welfare expansion, and civil liberties. She opposed the Immigration and Asylum Bill at Second Reading and previously campaigned against a digital ID scheme on civil liberties grounds. On planning, she voted against regulations removing councillor oversight of smaller housing applications, consistent with a modest pro-local-democracy score.

She sits on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, though economy, health, and social care dominate her speeches rather than media or cultural policy. Recent local news coverage spans crime, housing, planning, and GP services, suggesting a broad constituency focus. News sentiment data from the past 90 days is largely neutral in tone, with GP services the only category averaging a clearly positive score. Voting data and speech records are available from July 2024 onwards.