Justin Madders.

Madders voted against his party five times on 20 June 2025, all on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. He backed amendments that would have barred applicants whose wish to die was substantially driven by feeling a burden, financial hardship, or lack of care access — safeguards the Labour majority rejected — and then voted against the Bill at Third Reading. His stance places him well outside the Labour mainstream on this issue: he voted for assisted-dying restrictions at a rate 43 percentage points above his party's average, and supported access 45 points below it.

Beyond that cluster of rebel votes, Madders is a 97.8% party-line voter with an 87% participation rate — broadly in line with Commons averages. Economy and labour-market issues dominate his 792 parliamentary contributions, consistent with his seat in Ellesmere Port's manufacturing heartland and his membership of the Business and Trade Committee and its economic security sub-committee. He scores strongly on workers' rights votes (87% aligned) and progressive taxation (100%), but low on civil liberties (10%) and Lords scrutiny (4%), both reflecting government-loyalist voting rather than distinctive personal positions.

Local coverage casts him as an active constituency MP: he joined an eight-year-old's litter pick, demanded answers over NHS patient transport failures, and welcomed a £1bn electric van investment and a £20m regeneration package for Ellesmere Port. His top speech topics — economy, jobs, social care, cost of living — track directly onto his constituency's industrial profile and economic pressures. No news sentiment data is available for the most recent 90 days, so recent local standing cannot be assessed from coverage alone.