Meet the new MPs: the surgeon, the lawyer and the 24-year-old student
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, the surgeon, the surgeon, the lawyer and the 24-year-old student who still lives with his mum. |
| 0:15.0 | We meet some of Parliament's newest MPs. |
| 0:20.0 | From jet engines to space rockets, telephones to computers, the world has seen |
| 0:27.5 | spectacular change in the last hundred years and the pace of progress is |
| 0:31.6 | getting faster and faster. |
| 0:34.0 | From electric cars to the metaverse, drone deliveries to climate solutions and genetic sequencing. |
| 0:40.0 | We're investing in the companies that are not just changing the world today but are also |
| 0:44.3 | shaping the future. The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust managed by Bailey |
| 0:48.9 | Gifford Invest in Progress capital at risk. The UK Parliament is back for business today after a shorter than usual summer break. |
| 1:06.0 | Heckels will ring out across the green benches of the Commons again. The political WhatsApp groups will be pinging once more with the latest gossip. |
| 1:19.0 | Of the 650 MPs elected on the 4th of July, 335 are new, the highest number in a generation. |
| 1:27.0 | And they're joining a place that can seem daunting and anachronistic at the best of times. |
| 1:32.0 | The rules can be baffling, like bobbing. You know bobbing in Parliament, you know I never knew as a thing just to try and get the speaker's attention. I mean you stand up and down every |
| 1:43.5 | time you want to speak you know the first time I did it I felt really silly doing |
| 1:47.6 | and thought what am I doing standing up and down and it's just you just feel like a |
| 1:50.9 | bit of a child but it's process and apparently if you don't do it you're not going to get called. |
| 1:55.0 | There are so many new faces to learn. |
| 1:58.0 | It's a little bit like starting a new hospital or a new school but there's more to learn here than at a new school I think and |
| 2:05.1 | obviously there's a enormous number of new faces to get to know. |
| 2:10.0 | Actually I've just managed to get a hold of a little book which has got everybody's photograph in with their name, so I've going to spend the evening coming through that, seeing how many of them are actually spoken to. |
| 2:20.0 | Even the very building is intimidating. |
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