David Williams.

David Williams broke from Labour five times in a single day — 20 June 2025 — on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, voting to tighten safeguards around voluntary stopping of eating and drinking as a route to eligibility, and backing procedural moves his party opposed. Those five rebel votes make assisted dying the clearest point of personal conviction in his record. Beyond Westminster, he has used Parliament to push Stoke-on-Trent's causes directly: quizzing the Prime Minister on support for the ceramics industry, championing a local anti-fly-tipping campaign that won ministerial praise, and lobbying Lloyds and Cash Access UK to secure a banking hub after a branch closure.

Williams votes with Labour 97% of the time, making him a reliable party-line MP outside the assisted dying issue. His participation rate of 86% sits close to the Commons average. He scores notably higher than the Labour average on end-of-life autonomy and assisted dying safeguards — consistent with his rebel votes — and aligns strongly with the party on workers' rights, housing development, and progressive taxation. His speeches cluster around local government, the economy, and health, with cost-of-living and crime also featuring regularly. He sits on no select committees.

He represents Stoke-on-Trent North, a seat held by Conservative Jonathan Gullis until 2024 and one where Reform has since attracted attention following Gullis's December 2025 defection to Farage's party — context that helps explain Williams's visible focus on local economic issues like ceramics and high-street banking. News coverage over the past 90 days has been broadly neutral in tone, with the most positive stories tied to economy and jobs. Voting data and speech records are available; committee activity is absent.