Karl Turner has represented Hull East since 2010, most of it as one of the plainer speaking men on the Labour benches, a former shadow solicitor general with a barrister's mouth and a Humberside accent he never sanded down. In March 2026 his own party suspended him. Labour said the suspension followed a wider pattern of conduct, including online comments and behaviour in the House. Turner said the timing told the real story: he had become one of the loudest internal critics of the government's plan to restrict the right to a jury trial, and had led a rebellion against it. Both accounts can be true, which is the trouble with suspending an MP for conduct. He still turns up, 269 of 429 divisions from the naughty step. Verdict: punished for his conduct or for his argument, and the party has not made it easy to tell which.