Mark Pritchard.

Consistent Conservative loyalty and active constituency campaigning define Mark Pritchard's recent months — but he is most visible right now for his work on a stubborn local problem. He has raised Royal Mail delivery failures in The Wrekin six times in Parliament since January, met executives directly, written to the CEO and the postal minister, and publicly set accountability deadlines. He has also hosted a rural crime summit with the chief constable and council leaders, and lobbied for — and secured — a new A483 junction he says will deliver economic growth for the area. In Westminster, he has voted with Conservative positions on employment tribunal extensions and steel tariffs, opposing both as harmful to employers and downstream manufacturers respectively.

Pritchard's parliamentary participation sits at 53%, below the Commons average, and he has not once broken with his party across all recorded votes — a 100% alignment rate. His stance scores show strong pro-business and anti-tax instincts, with near-zero alignment on workers' rights or progressive taxation measures. He speaks most often on defence, the economy and jobs, crime, and local government. Where he departs from typical Conservative colleagues, it is notably on civil liberties — 41 percentage points above the party average — and he is somewhat more supportive of housing development than his peers, while sitting below the party average on assisted dying and criminal justice reform.

Pritchard has served The Wrekin since 2005 and sits on the Panel of Chairs. His news coverage over the past 90 days spans immigration, business, education and crime topics, though sentiment scores are broadly neutral. Speech data is available and reasonably detailed; voting records cover 568 divisions, giving a solid picture of his parliamentary behaviour — though the below-average participation rate means a significant share of votes went unrecorded.