MP with tattoo of Eastbourne Pier on his arm 🏖️
Liberal Democrat MP Josh Babarinde reveals his (not so) hidden tattoo of his constituency landmark.
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"It's the hope that kills you..." 😂
Labour MP for Bury North James Frith on why he decided to stand again for Parliament in 2017 after narrowly losing the 2015 election.
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"Next thing I know, this guy was firing air rifle pellets at our car..."
Conservative MP for Mid Leicestershire Peter Bedford describes his first election campaign for the Conservatives in 2001.
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Liberal Democrat MP on her favourite karaoke hit 🎤
Wera Hobhouse MP tells us what her go-to song is when she hits the microphone.
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MP living in POVERTY before getting elected
"I just had to get on with it....I had to make sure my children were fed"
Former Labour - now independent - MP Rosie Duffield talks about living in poverty as a single mum before being elected.
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"Things weren't this great until Kemi came...and now they are"
Leader of the Opposition & Leader of Conservatives talks about her priorities for Saffron Walden in one of her FIRST interviews as an elected MP
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"I lent him my history notes for A Level...he never game them me back"
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey talks about attending school for former Labour MP Ed Balls and being elected as Head Boy
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"I grew up thinking that people with bad skin were Tories"
Labour MP Carolyn Harris describes growing up thinking that all Tories had a 'rash'.
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"It was all a boy's world, it was all a man's world"
Liberal Democrat MP Pippa Heylings on life growing up playing football and 'being one of the lads'.
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"It meant so much to see her there"
Josh's Dad and Uncle stayed with the Baker family growing up. Josh Babarinde talks about seeing one of the family at his Uncle's funeral last year.
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Labour MP Ellie Reeves tells about smuggling boozy sandwiches into a Live8 concert in 2005.
One from the Meet The MPs archives from an interview in 2018. Ellie Reeves is MP for Lewisham West and East Dulwich and a Cabinet Office Minister.
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Behind the scenes of how the Upskirting Bill became law.
Wera Hobhouse - a new #LibDem MP in 2017 - describes trying to speak to a Conservative MP in the Commons. Upskirting became a criminal offence in 2019.
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"I would abolish Twitter"
Conservative Leader, @KemiBadenoch, asked in 2017 what she would do if she was Prime Minister for the day.
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Rosie Duffield, in one of her first interviews as a newly elected Labour MP in 2017
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"I wasn't alone" 😯
Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey on losing his Parliamentary seat in 2015
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"I'm Marmite....but I think most people like me" 🙃
This is Welsh Labour Deputy Leader and Member of Parliament, Carolyn Harris.
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"All my life I've had what they call imposter syndrome"
Deputy Leader of Welsh Labour, Carolyn Harris talks about her journey to becoming an MP.
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