Discover who represents you, how they’ve voted and what they’ve said in debates – simply and clearly. (Registered 11 January 2020), 6. Gavin Shuker | Gavin Shuker I'm Gavin Shuker and from 2010 to 2019 it was a privilege to serve as the MP for Luton South.

We provide commercial services through our wholly owned subsidiary SocietyWorks Ltd (05798215). First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Rachel Hopkins, who will now have the best job anybody could wish for – MP for the incredible community of Luton South. The requirements on proxy voting were relaxed, allowing MPs to designate another MP to cast a vote on their behalf. Rachel Hopkins is a Labour MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Labour MPs..

Luton was a constituency including the town of Luton in Bedfordshire.

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It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, elected by the first past the post system 1885–1950 and for 24 years thereafter. Find out more. Rachel Hopkins has never rebelled against their party in the current parliament.

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He then left Change UK to become an Independent politician and was defeated at the 2019 election, coming third with 9.3% of the vote. Shuker was a Labour Party MP before defecting to form Change UK. Rachel Hopkins is a Labour MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Labour MPs.

If an MP votes by proxy, it is effectively exactly the same as if they cast the vote in person and it shows up on their TheyWorkForYou voting record. However, Rachel Hopkins sometimes differs from their party colleagues, such as: We have lots more plain English analysis of Rachel Hopkins’s voting record on issues like health, welfare, taxation and more.