Melanie Onn.

Melanie Onn's one rebel vote tells you something about her instincts: in December 2024, she broke with the Labour majority to back a Liberal Democrat bill that would have replaced first-past-the-post with proportional representation — a notable defection given that Labour won its landslide on roughly a third of the popular vote. Beyond that single break, she is a 99.8% party-line voter, backing the government on the Immigration and Asylum Bill, trade union balloting reform, and Windsor Framework machinery regulations without deviation. Locally, she has been active: raising the Cleethorpes Road bus lane extension in Parliament, championing road safety reform after a local tragedy, and welcoming playground funding she had previously pushed for.

Her parliamentary participation sits at 74%, below the Commons average, though she has racked up 230 contributions across 144 debates — a high speech-to-vote ratio suggesting she picks her moments in the chamber. Her voting record shows consistent alignment with progressive taxation (100%) and workers' rights (85%), but lower scores on civil liberties (17%) and local democracy (38%). Her stance deviations from the Labour average are more revealing: she votes significantly more often in favour of victims' rights (+50 percentage points above her party) and assisted dying access (+31pp), and takes a tougher line on crime (+29pp).

Onn sits on the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee, which maps directly onto her most active speech topic — energy accounts for the third-largest share of her parliamentary contributions, behind economy-jobs and local government. Her constituency gives this focus practical weight: Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes sits at the centre of the offshore wind industry. News coverage over the past 90 days is insufficient to establish a sentiment pattern, but recent articles are consistently positive about her local casework.