Stephanie Peacock.

Stephanie Peacock voted against the assisted dying bill at Third Reading in June 2025 — one of five rebel votes she cast on the same day against her party's majority position on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. She opposed two amendments that would have closed a loophole allowing voluntary starvation to meet the terminal illness threshold, and also voted against the bill passing to the Lords. Her deviations from Labour on this issue are consistent with a broader pattern: she scores notably higher than the party average on end-of-life autonomy and assisted dying safeguards, suggesting a considered rather than reflexive position on the legislation. Beyond the chamber, her ministerial profile has been visible — she secured the World Snooker Championship's future at Sheffield's Crucible with a £45m expansion deal and championed a breakthrough insurance framework for female sports stars through her role chairing the Women's Football Taskforce.

At 69% voting participation, Peacock sits below the Commons average, though ministerial duties routinely reduce an MP's division attendance. Where she does vote, she is a 96.8% party-line supporter. Her stance profile shows strong alignment with workers' rights (87%) and housing development (93%), and she deviates from Labour peers most sharply on armed forces welfare (+60 percentage points above party average) and parliamentary scrutiny (+34 points). Her 610 contributions span 110 debates, with culture, community and economic topics dominating — a pattern that maps directly onto her Sports and Tourism ministerial brief.

She holds no select committee seats, which is standard for ministers. News coverage over the past 90 days has been largely neutral in tone across 90 articles, with crime coverage (25 articles) generating no positive signal and economy and culture stories performing slightly better. Her speech record and news footprint both reflect a minister focused on sport, tourism and local economic issues rather than broad legislative activism.