Tracy Gilbert.

Gilbert has been one of Labour's more visible welfare rebels this parliament. She voted against the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill at both Second and Third Reading — one of a minority of Labour MPs who refused to back government legislation cutting disability benefit eligibility for new claimants. She also backed a Rachael Maskell amendment seeking to protect people with fluctuating lifelong conditions, including Parkinson's and ME, from losing access to the higher support rate. A BBC report in June 2025 named her among a quarter of Scottish Labour MPs joining the rebellion, and she stated publicly that disabled people risked being "left worse off." On constituency matters, she co-hosted a roundtable with Vestas and Forth Ports in March 2026 to push for a wind turbine factory and 500 jobs in Leith.

At 77% voting participation, Gilbert is below the Commons average. She is a 99.1% party-line voter on most measures, but her voting profile flags clear divergence on welfare: her score on welfare reform sits 65 percentage points below the Labour average, while her opposition to disability benefit cuts runs 25 points above it. She speaks frequently — 127 contributions across 91 debates — with economy and jobs her dominant topic, followed by social care, defence, and energy, which reflects both constituency priorities around Leith's port economy and her welfare concerns.

Gilbert sits on the International Development Committee and the Procedure Committee. The latter is a less prominent role focused on how Commons business is conducted. Her stance data shows strong alignment with workers' rights and progressive taxation, but low scores on parliamentary scrutiny and Lords scrutiny votes, consistent with generally backing the government's procedural positions. Recent news coverage from within the last 90 days is insufficient to assess current local sentiment.