Marsha De Cordova.

De Cordova's most significant recent actions have been two rebel votes against the government's welfare cuts. She voted against the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill at both Second and Third Reading in July 2025 — defying Labour's whip alongside a group of MPs who argued the bill would harm disabled people by tightening PIP eligibility and cutting the health top-up for new claimants. She also voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at Third Reading and opposed two amendments to it, placing her among the more consistent opponents of assisted dying legislation in the Commons. These votes mark her out clearly from the parliamentary Labour mainstream.

Her voting pattern confirms this picture: at 95% party alignment she is broadly loyal, but the deviations are pointed. She sits 57 percentage points below the Labour average on welfare reform votes and 44 points below on assisted dying access — the two areas where her rebel votes cluster. Participation at 41% is well below the Commons average, though she compensates with substantial speech activity: 342 contributions across 152 debates. She speaks most often on culture and community, social care, and local government. Her stance profile shows strong alignment with workers' rights and fiscal discipline, but consistently low scores on civil liberties, criminal justice reform, and welfare expansion measures.

The context matters here. De Cordova has a visual impairment and built her career in disability advocacy before entering parliament in 2017; her opposition to PIP cuts and her eyehealth roundtables are consistent with that background rather than opportunistic positioning. She serves on no select committees currently. News coverage in the available data is older and sparse, so her recent local profile is difficult to assess independently of her parliamentary record.