Peter Bedford.

Elected in July 2024, Peter Bedford has been most distinctive on assisted dying. In June 2025 he broke from the Conservative majority four times to back the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill — voting for its Third Reading and against amendments that would have tightened its safeguards. That puts him 64 percentage points above his party average on assisted dying access, the sharpest deviation in his voting record. More recently he has backed the Conservative line on national security scrutiny and defence spending, supporting amendments to preserve judicial oversight in the National Security (State Threats) Bill and opposing government timetabling restrictions on its debate.

Bedford votes with his party roughly 97% of the time — a strong but not unusual level of Conservative loyalty for a 2024 intake MP. His participation rate of 73% sits below the Commons average. His stance profile is firmly Conservative: 100% aligned on anti-tax-increases, 96% on pro-business votes, and 90% on crime. He has made 203 contributions across 119 debates, with economy and jobs, fiscal policy, and labour market issues dominating his speeches. He sits on the Work and Pensions Committee, which maps closely onto that focus.

On local issues, Bedford made early headlines opposing what he called over-development and unfair council funding in his maiden speech, and later pledged to campaign "vociferously" against a proposed boundary change that would bring Mid Leicestershire villages under city jurisdiction. He also wrote to the Solicitor General over the sentencing of a boy convicted of killing an 80-year-old constituent. Ninety-day news coverage shows ongoing local press attention, particularly across crime and housing, though sentiment scores for that period are neutral.