Meg Hillier.

Meg Hillier has made headlines twice in recent months by breaking from her party on two of its most contentious issues. In June 2025, she voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at Third Reading — placing her well outside her party's majority — and simultaneously led a rebellion against the government's welfare cuts, putting down an amendment that attracted around 120 Labour signatures and forcing concessions from ministers. Those two interventions are the defining feature of her recent record: a broadly loyal MP who picks her battles carefully but fights hard when she does.

On the parliamentary fundamentals, Hillier votes with Labour 97% of the time and participates in 77% of divisions — broadly in line with the Commons average. Her stance profile flags notable patterns: she scores 0% on civil liberties votes and 28% on parliamentary scrutiny measures, both well below what her committee roles might suggest, while hitting 100% on progressive taxation and backing Lords reform in four-fifths of relevant votes. Her speeches concentrate heavily on economy, local government, fiscal policy and social care, which maps directly onto her committee work.

That committee work is the key context. As Chair of both the Treasury Committee and the Liaison Committee, she carries significant institutional weight — it was her committee that opened a formal inquiry into the October 2024 Budget's failings and publicly challenged Lloyds Bank over its 2026 IT breach affecting nearly half a million customers. Her deviation scores show she is markedly more restrictive on assisted dying than the Labour average (-47 percentage points) and more cautious on NHS funding votes (-24 points). News sentiment data covers 85 articles over 90 days but is dominated by culture and crime stories with near-zero MP-relevance scores, so her coverage picture rests primarily on the welfare rebellion and Treasury Committee activity.