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Coffee House Shots: how have the 2024 intake found frontline politics?

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πŸ—“οΈ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

As Parliament returns from summer recess, three rising stars of the 2024 intake join Coffee House Shots to provide their reflections on frontline politics so far. Labour's Rosie Wrighting, the Conservatives' Harriet Cross and the Liberal Democrats' Joshua Reynolds tell deputy political editor James Heale how they have found Parliament so far, and their most – and least – favourite thing about being an MP. Plus: while they are all new, and young, MPs, their parties' fortunes have all varied wildly – how have they dealt with that?


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Music Learn more at PMI.com slash progress. Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots.

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I'm James Heel and I'm delighted to have not one, not two, but three guests on today's

0:33.5

episode.

0:34.2

They are three of the writing stars of this new intake.

0:36.5

Rosie Writing is the Labour

0:37.5

MP for Kettering. Joshua Reynolds is the Liberal Democrat MP for Maidenhead and Harriet Cross

0:41.3

is the Conservative MP for Gordon and Buckin. They join us all now on Coffee Hour Shots. So all three of you

0:46.1

entered Parliament last year as new MPs. More than a year on, just wondered what your reflections

0:51.3

were on joining the political front rank. Rosie, how have you found it?

0:55.5

I think it's simultaneously been both the quickest year of my life,

1:00.4

but also life before Parliament feels like so long ago.

1:05.6

I mean, I was in the private sector.

1:08.0

I left my job.

1:09.1

The day the election was called. I didn't, to be honest,

1:12.2

no Parliament very well. I hadn't been in the House of Commons at all before becoming an MP.

1:17.3

So there was a lot to learn. But it's been, yeah, it's been really exciting. And to set up my

1:22.9

constituency office, have my staff here, get those casework wins and local wins for constituents has been

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