Tom Tugendhat.

Tugendhat's most prominent recent move was a public broadside against the government's handling of Peter Mandelson's security vetting, arguing the process "should have been intrusive and embarrassing" — a critique that carried weight given his background as a former Security Minister and Army officer who has himself been through vetting. He has also been active on national security legislation, supporting amendments to the National Security (State Threats) Bill in committee, and pushed back in Parliament against housing targets he says are undeliverable in parts of Kent, citing a water supply crisis that local council leaders have backed publicly.

Tugendhat votes at 52% — below the Commons average — and has not broken with Conservative whipping once in the current data period, making him a 100% party-line voter. His stance profile confirms a consistent Conservative pattern: firmly opposed to tax increases, supportive of parliamentary and Lords scrutiny, and hostile to the government agenda. Defence dominates his speeches, accounting for 44 of 179 contributions, followed by economy and jobs. He sits slightly to the right of his party average on assisted dying restrictions and slightly greener on climate, though neither gap is large.

His local coverage centres on housing infrastructure — specifically the mismatch between government building targets and water capacity in the Tonbridge area — and a successful campaign to bring a Sainsbury's expansion into a long-derelict town centre site. No committee roles are recorded in the current data. News sentiment over the past 90 days is mildly negative on average, driven partly by the asylum and housing coverage, though his defence and security interventions score more positively.