Kate Dearden.

A minister as well as an MP, Kate Dearden holds two government posts — Minister for Consumer Protection and Employment Rights Minister — and has been visibly active in both roles. In April she championed major product safety reforms for online marketplaces and was publicly quoted promoting the minimum wage rise that benefited an estimated 260,000 workers across Yorkshire and the Humber. At constituency level she organised a public meeting, surveyed 500 residents, and lobbied Yorkshire Water's CEO directly — successfully bringing forward infrastructure works in Sowerby Bridge by two years.

Her voting participation sits at 86%, broadly in line with Commons averages, and she has not broken once with the Labour whip across 496 recorded votes. Her stance profile shows strong alignment with workers' rights and progressive taxation, and her 234 parliamentary contributions — spread across economy, labour market, and cost-of-living debates — track closely with her ministerial brief. One notable deviation from her Labour colleagues: she votes more consistently in favour of assisted dying access, sitting 31 percentage points above her party's average on that issue.

Her low scores on pro-parliamentary-scrutiny (20%), pro-lords-scrutiny (4%), and pro-civil-liberties (6%) reflect government voting patterns rather than personal outliers — ministers routinely vote against amendments that would constrain the executive. She sits on no select committees, which is standard for those holding ministerial office. Recent news coverage over the past 90 days is too sparse to identify a sustained sentiment pattern, though earlier coverage in the period was consistently positive and centred on her ministerial work. Voting data covers activity since July 2024.