barrytimms58

You want a Britain that pays its way — no scrapping the two-child cap, no soft touch on student loans, British cement in British projects — but you're not a doctrinaire small-stater; you kept the triple lock and want more devolved power to mayors and councils. This is fiscal conservatism with a practical, not ideological, spine.

You split almost evenly with the national mood — siding with the majority on 11 of 18 votes — which is rarer than it sounds; most people cluster with the crowd or against it. You broke hard from Britain on overseas political donations (84% wanted tighter rules, you didn't) and on rewilding beavers, where the country's enthusiasm left you cold.

Wrexham mostly walks with you — unanimous on Gibraltar's Schengen deal, on devolving power, on British cement — but not on defence spending, where your own area was lukewarm while you backed the extra £15bn. That's the one place you're out ahead of your neighbours, not behind them.

Fifteen scored votes is still an early sketch, and whole fault lines — immigration, housing, justice, health — are untouched. Given how sharply you lean right on the economy, your first vote on any of those will tell us a great deal.

This is a first read built on a modest but clear signal — cast a few more votes, especially in the gaps, and the picture stops being a sketch and starts being a portrait. We'll be here each week, sharpening it as you go.