Peter Lamb.

Crawley's MP broke with Labour on the Chagos Islands deal — twice over. Peter Lamb voted against the Bill at Second Reading in September 2025 and then rebelled three more times in January 2026, backing Lords amendments that would have required cost transparency, parliamentary scrutiny of payments, and a safeguard allowing payments to stop if Diego Garcia became unusable. Lamb's position is not hard to explain: Crawley has one of the largest Chagossian communities in Britain, and he has been publicly critical of the deal since it was announced. He also broke from Labour on the assisted dying bill, backing a clause that would have blocked applications where the wish to die was substantially driven by disability, financial hardship, or fear of being a burden — a more restrictive position than most Labour MPs took.

Beyond those rebellions, Lamb is a broadly loyal, active MP — 93% voting participation against a Commons average closer to 80%, and a 97% party-line rate on everything outside the Chagos deal. His speeches cluster around local government, jobs, defence, and social care. He secured £423,000 for homelessness services in Crawley in late 2025 and has championed school nutrition standards, including a private member's bill on the subject. His stance data shows strong alignment with workers' rights and progressive taxation, and near-zero alignment with pro-business or civil liberties positions.

Lamb sits on the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, which fits a pattern of interest in executive accountability — he scored just 4% on supporting Lords scrutiny but only 27% on parliamentary scrutiny more broadly, suggesting selective rather than principled deference to oversight mechanisms. Recent local news coverage (14 articles in the past 90 days) is dominated by crime stories with a neutral average score, offering little signal about local political sentiment. Parliamentary data is comprehensive.