Luke Charters.

Elected in Labour's 2024 landslide as York Outer's first-ever Labour MP, Luke Charters has built a near-perfect party voting record — 99.8% alignment — with one notable exception: he backed a devolution-focused new clause to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in June 2025, breaking from the Labour majority on assisted dying. His stance profile confirms this is not random; he sits 20 percentage points above his party average on pro-assisted-dying-access votes, making end-of-life policy one of his clearest personal positions.

His parliamentary participation rate of 83% sits modestly below the Commons average, though his 206 contributions across 131 debates suggests he is more active in chamber discussion than his vote attendance alone implies. Economy and jobs dominate his speeches — 74 contributions — followed by local government, defence, and cost of living. He votes consistently with the government on planning reform, workers' rights, and progressive taxation, and scores low on pro-business, pro-parliamentary-scrutiny, and pro-civil-liberties measures, reflecting a pattern of backing government priorities over opposition or backbench amendments. He holds no select committee positions.

Local coverage paints him as an engaged constituency operator: he has taken credit for restoring a post office in York and championed paternity leave reform publicly, including through his own experience. His deviation from party norms on apprenticeships and armed forces welfare is notable but not yet explained by available data. No recent news coverage (last 90 days) is available to assess current local sentiment.