Beginner's Guide To Being An MP

The Rundown by PoliticsHome

After last week’s extraordinary election result, this week has seen hundreds of new MPs and their staff descend on Westminster, but what’s it like entering Parliament for the first time? Alain Tolhurst is joined by Dan Tomlinson, elected last week as the new MP for Chipping Barnet, along with one of his Labour colleagues Sarah Owen, her senior parliamentary researcher Jenny Symmons, who is also head of the GMB trade union committee branch in Westminster, and Ellie Varley, head of communications for former Tory MP Dehenna Davison. Later on in part two Alice Lilly from the Institute for Government explains the training they put on for new MPs and ministers.


Presented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton for Podot

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