Sarah Pochin.

Elected in May 2025 after winning the Runcorn and Helsby by-election for Reform UK, Sarah Pochin has been one of the more independent voices in her party's small Commons group — but she attracted serious negative attention in March 2026 when journalists reported she made transphobic and Islamophobic jokes at a Reform conference event, with one article scoring among the most damaging coverage of any MP. On two occasions she has broken with Reform UK's majority: she voted for the Terminally Ill Adults Bill at Third Reading and backed several of its amendments in June 2025, and in December 2025 she supported the Railways Bill at Second Reading, endorsing Labour's rail nationalisation policy against her own party's opposition.

Her participation rate of 56% sits below the Commons average. She votes with Reform UK on 96% of divisions — opposing workers' rights reforms, employment tribunal extensions, housing development, and government spending — but her voting profile diverges notably on assisted dying, where she is 26 percentage points more supportive of access than her party average. She has also scored highly on parliamentary and Lords scrutiny votes. Her 113 contributions across 75 debates focus heavily on crime, the economy, defence, and immigration, consistent with Reform's core agenda, though local issues surface too — she raised constituent concerns from a Runcorn doctor directly with the Health Secretary in January 2026.

Her legal background (she previously served as a magistrate and Deputy District Judge) shapes her parliamentary work: local coverage noted a detailed speech opposing jury reforms as "the exact opposite of justice." She sits on no select committees. News coverage over the past 90 days is broadly neutral across 28 articles, though her conference remarks generated the most prominent negative press of her short parliamentary career so far.