Tracy Gilbert.

Gilbert has been one of Labour's more visible welfare rebels this parliament. She voted against the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill at both Second Reading and Third Reading, and backed a reasoned amendment designed to block it entirely — placing her among a minority of Labour MPs willing to defy the whip twice on the same legislation. She also voted for an amendment that would have protected disabled people with fluctuating conditions while the government's PIP review is ongoing. Her stance on disability benefits sits 55 percentage points above her party's average, the largest single deviation in her voting profile. Away from welfare, she has been active on local economic development, co-hosting a roundtable with Vestas and Forth Ports over a potential wind turbine factory and 500 jobs at Leith.

Gilbert votes with Labour 99.1% of the time outside her welfare rebellions, making those defections stand out sharply against an otherwise loyal record. She participates in 78% of votes, broadly in line with the Commons average. Her speeches — 125 contributions across 89 debates — cluster heavily around economy and jobs, social care, energy, and defence. She scores strongly on workers' rights (90%) and progressive taxation (100%), but deviates notably downward on veterans' issues and armed forces welfare, where she votes below the Labour average.

She sits on the International Development Committee and the Procedure Committee, though neither has driven her recent public profile. Local news coverage over the past 90 days has focused mainly on the Leith jobs story, with one education article registering negatively. Older news items in the dataset relate to previous MPs for the constituency and are not relevant to her record. Her parliament began in July 2024, so her full voting history spans roughly two years.