Ben Coleman.

Chelsea and Fulham's MP is best known as the politician who unseated long-serving Conservative Greg Hands by just 152 votes in 2024 — the slimmest Labour majority in London that night. Since then, Ben Coleman has made his clearest independent mark on the assisted dying debate. In June 2025 he voted five times against his party's majority position on the Terminally Ill Adults Bill, backing amendments that would have closed a loophole allowing voluntary starvation to qualify someone as terminally ill, and supporting procedural moves to extend safeguards around independent medical assessments. On most other votes, however, he is a 97% party-line MP.

His participation rate of 73% sits below the Commons average. In the chamber, he votes consistently for workers' rights and progressive taxation, while sitting at the sceptical end of his party on welfare expansion (41% aligned) and criminal justice reform (62% aligned). He deviates most sharply from Labour colleagues on pension protection — voting 100% aligned versus a party average of 43% — and has spoken across 78 debates, with economy and jobs, health, and social care dominating his contributions. He sits on the Health and Social Care Committee, which explains the breadth of his health-related activity.

On constituency work, coverage has been positive: he campaigned successfully to keep Chelsea's last Post Office open (gathering 1,500 signatures and meeting ministers directly), and pushed Transport for London to shortlist Putney Bridge station for an accessibility study. Local news over the past 90 days has centred on housing and transport — 39 of 79 articles between those two topics alone — though the sentiment scores for that period are broadly neutral rather than strongly positive or negative.