Yvette Cooper.

Yvette Cooper has shifted roles since Labour's 2024 election victory — she now serves as Foreign Secretary, a Cabinet position that explains both her heavy focus on defence and diplomacy and her notably low parliamentary voting rate of 29% (165 of 570 votes). Cabinet ministers routinely miss Commons divisions due to international commitments, so this figure reflects her role rather than disengagement. Her most prominent recent actions include championing Martyn's Law through Parliament — legislation on public venue security she is directly credited with delivering — and publicly breaking with the US over Trump's threats against Iran and Washington's health aid cuts, positioning the UK as an independent voice on both.

Her parliamentary record shows 100% party alignment with no rebel votes, making her a reliable government loyalist on every division she has participated in. Her 1,398 contributions across 84 debates skew heavily toward defence, crime, and immigration — topics central to her current brief and her previous role as Home Secretary. Her stance profile reveals some notable patterns: she scores 0% on pro-business measures and just 13% on pro-parliamentary-scrutiny votes, while sitting 24 percentage points above the Labour average on opposing fossil fuel subsidies.

The news picture over the past 90 days is mildly negative (average score of -0.15 across 16 articles), driven largely by criticism of the government's 40% overseas aid cuts — a policy Cooper has defended in Parliament as necessary to fund defence spending — and her handling of Middle East policy. No committee memberships are recorded, consistent with her Cabinet role. Voting data covers only divisions she attended, so her stance profile is drawn from a relatively small sample.