Samantha Niblett.

A steady, loyalist backbencher who has nonetheless carved out a visible local presence, Niblett has not cast a single rebel vote since entering Parliament in 2024 — she votes with Labour 100% of the time. Her most visible recent act was intervening directly with Meta to restore a Swadlincote restaurant's Facebook account after it was wrongly banned, then raising the broader problem at a parliamentary committee. She also participated in a Westminster Hall debate on East Midlands issues, publicly criticising Reform MPs for not attending, and has spoken on Gaza, arguing Hamas "must have nothing to do" with the territory's future.

Her participation rate of 82% sits modestly below the Commons average. She speaks frequently — 139 contributions across 105 debates — with economy and jobs, social care, and local government dominating her topics. Her voting record places her firmly in the Labour mainstream on workers' rights (90% aligned) and progressive taxation (100%), but she is notably less aligned than her party average on welfare expansion and armed forces welfare. The most striking deviation is on assisted dying: she votes more liberally on access than roughly two-thirds of her Labour colleagues, a 31-percentage-point gap that suggests a genuine personal position rather than drift.

She sits on the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, which maps onto her documented interest in technology issues — the Meta intervention being one visible example. Recent news coverage spans planning, health, and crime, though most articles carry a neutral sentiment score, suggesting broadly functional rather than headline-grabbing local coverage. No rebel votes exist in the available data, and her record is that of a reliable first-term loyalist still building her profile.