Pete Wishart.

One of the SNP's most vocal Westminster figures, Pete Wishart has been using his platform to hold the Labour government to account on multiple fronts. In April he called on Keir Starmer to resign over the Peter Mandelson affair, describing the Prime Minister's position as "unsurvivable" — among the sharpest personal attacks on Labour's leadership from any Scottish MP this year. He has also been active on immigration, intervening to resolve a Ukrainian family's visa crisis in his constituency and publicly rebutting false rumours that a former local school was earmarked for asylum accommodation. More recently he voted against the government's asylum support regulations and opposed Labour's King's Speech, consistent with his 0% alignment with the government's legislative agenda.

His parliamentary record reflects a distinctive SNP position rather than a rebel one — 100% party-line voting with no defections. Participation, however, is notably low at 27%, well below the Commons average, which limits the weight of that loyalty. Where he does engage, his votes consistently favour workers' rights, welfare expansion, and civil liberties, while opposing immigration controls and fiscal tightening. His voting profile leans slightly more pro-welfare and pro-civil-liberties than the SNP average, and slightly less pro-business. He has no current committee roles.

Wishart has been an MP for Perth and Kinross-shire since 2001, and his speech activity — 402 contributions across 141 debates — is substantial, spanning economy, immigration, culture, and local government. His low vote participation rate may partly reflect the SNP's selective engagement with Westminster votes, a long-standing party posture rather than personal disengagement. Ninety-day news sentiment data is insufficient for trend analysis.