{"id":92673,"date":"2024-07-11T13:03:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T13:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/11\/mp-josh-macalister-called-to-cumbria-mountain-rescue-after-election-win\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T13:03:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T13:03:26","slug":"mp-josh-macalister-called-to-cumbria-mountain-rescue-after-election-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/11\/mp-josh-macalister-called-to-cumbria-mountain-rescue-after-election-win\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Josh MacAlister called to Cumbria mountain rescue after election win"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"MP<\/div>


\n<\/p>\n

\n

There was not much time to rest for a newly elected MP, as he was called out to a mountain rescue less than 24 hours after being voted in.<\/p>\n

Josh MacAlister was elected for Cumbria’s Workington and Whitehaven constituency at about 02:15 BST on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Labour MP said he was looking forward to a relaxing afternoon and an early night after staying up late, but instead he was responding to a call-out at 23:00 BST.<\/p>\n

Mr MacAlister said: “I hadn’t been able to do any call-outs during the election period and prior to that I had had a shoulder injury, so I thought this was my first opportunity to go out for a long time.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

The casualty Mr MacAlister and his teammates were called to was airlifted to hospital in Carlisle and is believed to be recovering, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

The new MP was back home by 02:30 BST, about 24 hours after being officially elected to the role.<\/p>\n

He added he was “well and truly” ready to go to bed by the time he returned.<\/p>\n

“I had had enough adrenaline and enough late nights for a considerable period of time,” he joked.<\/p>\n

Mr MacAlister has been part of the mountain rescue team for three years, and said he intended on continuing in the role when in the area.<\/p>\n

He said he became involved, like many others do, because of his love of the fells and the desire to help people.<\/p>\n

“I really love doing it, I’m going to try to continue being involved as much as I can as a Member of Parliament.”<\/p>\n

He added the tasks carried out as a mountain rescue volunteer were much more practical, and he was hoping that doing the two things together would give him some balance.<\/p>\n

When asked how he would react if a casualty recognised him as their MP, he said: “I think it’s so out of context that I’m hoping it doesn’t happen – I’d rather not distract them, but actually sometimes people are in quite a lot of pain, so the distraction might be useful.<\/p>\n

“I’m just keen to muck in with the team and do my bit.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was not much time to rest for a newly elected MP, as he was called out to a mountain rescue less than 24 hours after being voted in. Josh MacAlister was elected for Cumbria’s Workington and Whitehaven constituency at about 02:15 BST on Friday. The Labour MP said he was looking forward to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/83b8\/live\/c385e720-3f79-11ef-b74c-bb483a802c97.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[2608,60160,50,43379,79206,6308,4258,1460],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92675,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92673\/revisions\/92675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}