Vikki Slade.

Vikki Slade has been one of the more visible Liberal Democrat backbenchers since winning Mid Dorset and North Poole in 2024 — and her recent record shows a consistent pattern of local campaigning translated into parliamentary action. She raised concerns about multi-academy trust spending that prompted a ministerial investigation, gathered 2,000 signatures on a parliamentary petition to save Upton Heath from development (the site was subsequently purchased by the Dorset Wildlife Trust), launched a campaign to guarantee GP investment on new housing sites after visiting local surgeries, and used FOI requests to expose low charge rates for phone theft in underfunded Dorset Police. She has also voted against government planning regulations that would remove elected councillors' oversight of smaller housing applications — a stance consistent with her local-democracy advocacy.

Her parliamentary engagement is broadly active: 491 contributions across 300 debates, with speeches concentrated on economy and jobs, local government, social care, and health. Her voting participation of 70% sits below the Commons average. She has no rebel votes, recording 100% alignment with the Liberal Democrat majority, but her stance profile places her well outside the government's position — a 7% alignment with the pro-government-agenda metric — and she scores notably low on fiscal-responsibility (16%) and progressive-taxation (20%) measures. She votes strongly for parliamentary and Lords scrutiny.

Within the Lib Dem group, she stands out on public health (100% aligned versus the party's 68%) and whistleblower protection (100% versus 77%), and leans more strongly toward assisted dying access than the party average. She sits on the Justice Committee. News coverage over the past 90 days skews neutral overall, with environment stories attracting the most positive sentiment; culture and transport coverage is largely neutral. Data on individual speech content within debates is limited.