Newbie MPs First Christmas
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today, we catch up with three newly-elected parliamentarians about their first terms.
Adam is joined by Rosie Wrighting, Labour MP for Kettering, Ben Obese-Jecty, Conservative MP for Huntingdon and Pippa Heylings, Liberal Democrat MP for South Cambridgeshire.
Adam finds out how their election campaigns went, what missteps they’ve made in Parliament so far and what really goes on behind the scenes in the House of Commons.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Merry Christmas. If you would like to ensure you never miss an episode of this podcast, you can subscribe to us on BBC Sounds. Just click the subscribe button on the newscast feed. |
| 0:12.6 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:16.3 | Hello, here is a quick pub quiz question for you. After the UK general election, how many new MPs were |
| 0:23.6 | elected to Parliament? Okay, your time's up. The answer is 335. Well done if you actually didn't know that |
| 0:30.4 | off by heart. That means you're a bigger geek than I have because I've got it written down here |
| 0:34.1 | from the House of Commons Library. Thank you. Anyway, we thought we would get three of the newbies together to find out a bit more about them and to find out how their |
| 0:42.2 | first few months in Parliament on the front line of politics has been going, because maybe that |
| 0:46.7 | will tell us something about just where we are as a country. So that is what you were going to |
| 0:51.2 | hear on this episode of newscast as we sit down with three new MPs before they head back to their constituencies. |
| 1:00.6 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:03.0 | Two cheeks of the same backside. |
| 1:05.9 | Well, I don't think I'm that bad at politics. |
| 1:08.0 | People do call me for short, Jenny Leck. |
| 1:10.4 | On reflection, it was a mistake not to stay longer. |
| 1:12.7 | We did it. Are you all watched the debate? |
| 1:15.1 | Winning the popular vote was very nice. |
| 1:17.5 | I don't think I'm being rude. Blimey. |
| 1:20.6 | Well, we're joined by Rosie Writing from Labor. Hello, Rosie. |
| 1:23.3 | Hi, yeah. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:24.7 | Thanks for coming in. Ben Obsey JJecti from the Conservatives. Hello. |
| 1:28.0 | Hello. |
| 1:28.6 | And Pippa Hailing's from the Liberal Democrats. |
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