Rachel Blake.

Housing is Rachel Blake's most visible cause outside the voting lobby. She has pushed a 10-minute Rule Bill to strengthen leaseholders' right to manage their own buildings, lobbied ministers to pilot a short-let registration scheme — arguing her constituency is losing up to 20% of its housing stock to Airbnb-style lets — and been credited with helping secure 80 additional police officers for the West End. Her two rebel votes, both on the Assisted Dying Bill in June 2025, show where she parts from Labour: she backed an amendment that would have made financial hardship or disability automatic disqualifiers for assisted dying, and supported a clause strengthening devolution protections in the bill. Both positions put her to the more cautious end of the assisted dying debate, consistent with her voting profile showing stronger-than-average alignment with disability rights (+24 percentage points above her party).

Otherwise, Blake votes with Labour on virtually everything — a 99.6% party-line record from 462 of 554 votes cast, itself an above-average participation rate. Her stance profile flags low alignment with parliamentary scrutiny (19%), civil liberties (6%), and Lords oversight (0%), reflecting consistent support for the government's legislative timetabling and its version of bills such as the National Security (State Threats) Act. Her 208 speech contributions span economy, local government, defence, and housing, with social care also featuring regularly.

Her constituency — the Cities of London and Westminster — shapes much of this: short-lets, leaseholds, West End crime, and cultural institutions are all hyper-local pressures that dominate her agenda. Recent news coverage (seven articles in the past 90 days) skews positive on housing and crime, neutral on transport and defence. No committee role beyond the Members Estimate Committee is recorded, and debate transcripts for several recent Armed Forces Bill votes are unavailable, limiting full assessment of her position on defence legislation.