MP for Leyton and Wanstead
Calvin Bailey is a Labour Co-operative MP for Leyton and Wanstead, elected in July 2024. He serves on the Defence Committee and the Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art as a first-term MP.
He shows very high party loyalty (100%) but a notably low voting attendance (12%, compared with the party average of 33%). He has no rebel votes and sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum (42/100). On key topics, he generally supports welfare measures, trade union powers, workers' rights protections and renter protections, with mixed positions on bus regulation, transgender rights and climate measures, and he has tended to vote against expanding mental health services.
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Generated 21 February 2026
2 positions
Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art
Since Feb 2025
Defence Committee
Since Oct 2024
Based on parliamentary votes
has voted a mixture of ways on universal credit
has voted a mixture of ways on trade union powers
has voted a mixture of ways on workers rights protections
has voted a mixture of ways on vat changes
has almost always voted against prison sentencing
has generally voted against bus services regulation
has generally voted for renter protections
has generally voted against transgender rights
Referendums Relating to Council Tax Increases (Principles) (England) Report 2026-27
Local Government Finance Report (England) 2026-27
Draft Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Extension to Maritime Activities) Order 2026
Draft Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2026
Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill: Second Reading