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Bridget Phillipson vs Dame Karen Bradley

A side-by-side comparison of voting participation, party rebellion, topic focus, and recent voting overlap.

Photograph of Bridget Phillipson
Bridget Phillipson
Lab Houghton and Sunderland South
vs
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Dame Karen Bradley
Con Staffordshire Moorlands

Voting alignment

Bridget Phillipson and Dame Karen Bradley voted the same way 5% of the time, based on 970 shared comparable votes.

50 same votes 920 different votes 970 shared votes

Alignment only includes divisions where both MPs recorded an Aye or No vote. Tellers, absences, abstentions, and missing votes are excluded.

Topic alignment

Closest by topic
100 Aye 58 No
Brexit / EU 6% aligned 158 shared votes
62 Aye 96 No
9 Aye 8 No
Energy 6% aligned 17 shared votes
9 Aye 8 No
15 Aye 37 No
Migration 6% aligned 52 shared votes
34 Aye 18 No
16 Aye 6 No
NHS / Health 5% aligned 22 shared votes
7 Aye 15 No
18 Aye 8 No
Benefits 4% aligned 26 shared votes
7 Aye 19 No
Most different by topic
19 Aye 24 No
Transport 0% aligned 43 shared votes
24 Aye 19 No
22 Aye 21 No
Work / Employment 0% aligned 43 shared votes
21 Aye 22 No
20 Aye 11 No
Foreign Affairs 0% aligned 31 shared votes
11 Aye 20 No
17 Aye 10 No
Defence 0% aligned 27 shared votes
10 Aye 17 No
20 Aye 4 No
Housing 0% aligned 24 shared votes
4 Aye 20 No

Topic alignment uses local topic tags, so a division can count towards more than one topic.

Voting record

56.0%
17% below average
Rank 600 of 649
Participation
67.0%
6% below average
Rank 477 of 649
1,330
2,376 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,592
2,376 eligible divisions
799
60.1% of votes cast
Aye votes
744
46.7% of votes cast
531
39.9% of votes cast
No votes
848
53.3% of votes cast
6
0.5% of votes cast
Against party
6
0.4% of votes cast
16 years, 4 months
Since 6 May 2010
Commons service
16 years, 4 months
Since 6 May 2010

Debates

86
+3.7 vs Commons average
Rank 226 of 649
Appearances
72
-10.3 vs Commons average
Rank 303 of 649
573
+429.5 vs Commons average
Rank 13 of 649
Contributions
78
-65.5 vs Commons average
Rank 405 of 649

Debate figures cover imported Hansard debate appearances from the last 12 months.

Financials and interests

£2,958,445
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,878,658
all imported IPSA years
£276,480
22% above average
Latest expenses
£283,093
25% above average
13
2 registered categories
Registered interests
13
3 registered categories
2
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
11
matched sponsored bills

Expenses use IPSA totals for financial year 2024-25. Sponsored bill counts depend on currently imported bill sponsor metadata.

Most active voting topics

Brexit / EU
175 of 211 votes
#1
Brexit / EU
188 of 211 votes
Education
78 of 96 votes
#2
Digital / Online Safety
50 of 60 votes
Foreign Affairs
54 of 69 votes
#3
Trade
74 of 91 votes
Trade
63 of 91 votes
#4
Work / Employment
61 of 77 votes
Environment / Climate
32 of 48 votes
#5
Democracy / Parliament
37 of 47 votes

Recent voting overlap

Where they voted differently
Aye
Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 15 Jul 2026
Trade Work / Employment
No
Aye
Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots 15 Jul 2026
Trade Work / Employment
No
No
Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 19 14 Jul 2026
Aye
No
Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 199 14 Jul 2026
Aye
No
Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading 13 Jul 2026
Migration
Aye
Aye
Draft Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (Establishment of Schools) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 8 Jul 2026
Education
No
Aye
Draft Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment etc.) and the EU Machinery Regulation (Enforcement etc. in Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026 8 Jul 2026
No
Aye
Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 8 Jul 2026
No
Aye
Employment Tribunal (Extension of Time Limits) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2026 1 Jul 2026
No
Aye
Employment Tribunals Extension of Jurisdiction (England and Wales) (Amendment) Order 2026 1 Jul 2026
No
Where they voted the same
No
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading 11 Sept 2026
No
No
King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (l) 20 May 2026
No
No
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: New Clause 8 9 Jul 2025
Benefits
No
Aye
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Report Stage: Amendment (a) to New Clause 10 16 May 2025
Aye
No
Closure motion 16 May 2025
No
No
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading 29 Nov 2024
No
Aye
the draft Economic Growth (Regulatory Functions) (Amendment) Order 2024 24 Apr 2024
Aye
No
Motion to sit in private 21 Feb 2024
Tax
No
No
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill Committee: Amendment 23 17 Jan 2024
Migration
No
No
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill Committee: Amendment 19 16 Jan 2024
Migration
No
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