{"id":88294,"date":"2024-07-05T12:39:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T12:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/general-election-7-new-mps-with-very-interesting-backgrounds\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:39:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T12:39:47","slug":"general-election-7-new-mps-with-very-interesting-backgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/general-election-7-new-mps-with-very-interesting-backgrounds\/","title":{"rendered":"General election: 7 new MPs with very interesting backgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This election will see almost 300 new faces take their seats in parliament.<\/p>\n

The vast majority form Sir Keir Starmer’s landslide<\/strong><\/a> – but there are dozens of fresh-faced Liberal Democrats, independents and new MPs from smaller parties.<\/p>\n

Here we look at some of those with interesting backgrounds.<\/p>\n

Labour victory exceeds exit poll prediction – follow live<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Roz Savage, Liberal Democrats<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ms Savage is the only woman to have rowed solo across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.<\/p>\n

The 58-year-old holds four Guinness World Records for her sporting triumphs, which came after an Oxford law degree and 11 years of being a management consultant.<\/p>\n

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As an ocean rower, she has spent more than five months alone at sea.<\/p>\n

She was given an MBE in 2013 for services to fundraising and the environment – and beat Conservative candidate James Gray with 22,961 votes to 17,988 in Cotswolds South.<\/p>\n

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Pat Cullen, Sinn Fein<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ms Cullen increased Sinn Fein’s majority in Fermanagh and South Tyrone from 57 – once the UK’s most marginal seat – to more than 4,000.<\/p>\n

Although she won’t take her seat in the Commons, as per her party’s policy<\/strong><\/a>, she has prior experience of being in Westminster.<\/p>\n

As general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing for three years, she sat around the negotiating table with Tory ministers and eventually brokered a 5% pay increase for nurses in England.<\/p>\n

Before joining the union eight years ago, she had been a nurse for more than four decades. Four of her five sisters also have the same job.<\/p>\n

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Torsten Bell, Labour<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr Bell was the chief executive of the Resolution Foundation – an economic think tank with a focus on fighting poverty – from 2015 until earlier this year.<\/p>\n

His analysis of the previous government’s handling of the cost of living crisis has increased his public profile in recent years.<\/p>\n

Before joining the foundation, he served as former Labour leader Ed Miliband’s director of policy, and a special adviser to former chancellor Alistair Darling during the 2008 financial crisis.<\/p>\n

He has received some criticism for standing in Swansea West with no prior links to the area, but won the seat by 8,515 votes.<\/p>\n

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Joani Reid, Labour<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ms Reid’s late grandfather Jimmy Reid became world famous for leading Glasgow’s shipbuilders in their work-in protest between 1971 and 1973.<\/p>\n

The work-in was a response to Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath’s plan to close the Upper Clyde shipyards. Instead of striking or staging a sit-in, the workers locked out their managers to prove they could fulfil orders themselves.<\/p>\n

Celebrities, including John Lennon and Sir Billy Connolly, showed their support and eventually Mr Heath backed down.<\/p>\n

His granddaughter Joani was a councillor in Lewisham, south London, after moving to the capital for university – but now occupies the seat of East Kilbride and Strathaven.<\/p>\n

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Rupert Lowe, Reform UK<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr Lowe beat the Conservatives in Great Yarmouth by 1,426 votes.<\/p>\n

The 66-year-old’s bids to enter the Commons date back to the 1997 election when he stood unsuccessfully for the Referendum Party.<\/p>\n

As a Brexiteer, he played an active role in the Vote Leave campaign and was elected as a Brexit Party Member of European Parliament for the West Midlands before the UK left the bloc.<\/p>\n

He is also known for two tenures as chairman of Southampton Football Club – from 1996 to 2006 and 2008 to 2009, which coincided with the team’s relegation from the Premier League and financial difficulties linked to a new stadium.<\/p>\n

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Sian Berry, Green Party<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sian Berry was the co-leader of the Greens from 2018 to 2021 before a short tenure as sole leader. She was a London Assembly member from 2016 to 2024.<\/p>\n

Ms Berry founded the Alliance Against Urban 4x4s in Camden, where she was a councillor, in 2003.<\/p>\n

The national campaign was aimed at stopping the vehicles “taking over our cities” and often saw fake parking tickets placed on 4x4s attributed to Ms Berry.<\/p>\n

She replaces her Green Party colleague and former leader Caroline Lucas, who is retiring, in Brighton Pavilion.<\/p>\n

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Georgia Gould, Labour<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ms Gould has been the leader of Camden Council in north London since 2017, having been a councillor since 2010.<\/p>\n

She is the daughter of Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood, who was a key adviser to Sir Tony Blair and his New Labour government, and Gail Rebuck, chairman of Penguin Random House publishing, who is also a Labour peer.<\/p>\n

Referred to by some as a “red princess” because of her Labour background, she recalls spending childhood holidays with the Blair family, Alastair Campbell, and the late Dame Tessa Jowell.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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