Zarah Sultana.

Zarah Sultana's most striking recent act was voting against the Immigration and Asylum Bill at Second Reading in July 2026 — opposing her own party's flagship legislation on its core principles. That vote fits a broader pattern: she has broken with her party five times since late 2025, backing the removal of the historical safeguard from terrorism glorification offences, siding with Lords amendments on school uniforms and child protection, and supporting the transfer of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius. Her rebel votes tend to run left of her party on civil liberties and international affairs, not right of it.

Her participation rate of 68% sits below the Commons average, though her 97% party alignment when she does vote marks her as broadly loyal on routine legislation. Her stance data tells a consistent story: she votes with workers' rights measures four times in five, backs progressive taxation in every recorded vote, and supports welfare expansion and climate action at similar rates. She diverges sharply from her party on employer protections — voting against National Insurance increases for employers where roughly two-fifths of her colleagues went the other way — and scores low on business-friendly and tough-on-crime measures. Her 60 speeches across 42 debates have concentrated heavily on defence, social care, and the economy.

Context matters here. News coverage over the past 90 days has been mixed at best: Sultana drew positive attention for publicly opposing Coventry Council's renewal of a Palantir AI contract, but several articles have framed Your Party — which she co-founded — as a struggling project, with reported internal divisions and questions about her influence within it. She holds no committee seats. Speech data runs to April 2026, so her activity in the most recent parliamentary period is not fully captured.