
Kate Osamor is, by the raw numbers, one of the busiest members in the Commons: 1,337 written questions in the period, a rate most of her colleagues could not sustain if they tried. She has represented her corner of north London since 2015 from the Labour left, loyal to the causes and rarely to the leadership. What she is known for outside Edmonton is a single post. On the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day in January 2024 she wrote that the day should remember the six million murdered in the Holocaust, the millions killed under Nazi persecution, and more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and now Gaza. The whip was suspended within days. She apologised. The volume of questions tells you she works; the episode tells you she will say the thing she believes even when the cost is her own party card. Verdict: hard working and hard headed in equal measure, and the second one keeps ending the arguments the first one starts.
Cases referred to the House of Commons Committee on Standards. The Committee publishes a numbered report for each case; outcome and penalty (where applicable) live inside the report PDF.