Hundreds of brand new MPs descended on parliament this week after the election
Prime minister Keir Starmer poses for a photograph in Westminster with Dawn Butler after a photocall with Labour Party MPs, some of whom had won seats for the first time. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wireshowed up to get their access passes and look around. Yet for others, school was out and not just for summer.
Baker was the Tory who apologised to the Republic from the stage of his party’s 2022 autumn conference over Britain’s Brexit muscularity towards its neighbour. It contributed to a genuine thaw in relations that opened the way for the Windsor Framework deal six months later. Baker no longer has his Westminster seat or his political career. But he’ll always have that.
Labour’s Emily Thornberry, who won her election battle but lost her place on Starmer’s front bench, fielded sympathetic greetings from party colleagues. At the weekend she was inexplicably passed over by the new prime minister for the role of attorney general, which she had held in a shadow capacity. “I’m all right,” she said, as stunned colleagues consoled her.
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