Newly-elected MPs across the country headed in to Westminster yesterday for their first day in a new role.
Thursday’s general election saw 335 Members of Parliament elected for the first time and the House of Commons will sit again today (9).
In Gedling borough, Labour took both seats from the Tories, with Michael Payne winning the Gedling seat and Michelle Welsh becoming MP for Sherwood Forest.
Both joined a photo call with the new Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his Cabinet.
The photo was organised after Labour MPs attended their the first meeting of the new parliamentary Labour party.
The new PM addressed his MPs at the meeting, saying: “people have placed their trust in us for now, but they’re not converts” and that his government had a “mandate for renewal”.
He added: “Election victories do not fall from the sky. They are hard-won and hard-fought for and this one could only have been won by a changed Labour party.”
Payne posted about the day on X (formally Twitter) saying it was ‘a privilege to join this amazing team’
He said the group would be ‘serving our communities and country’ together
Our new Gedling borough MPs will attend induction sessions today (9) on security, standards, protocol and be informed about how to run their office.
Parliament will then formally reopen again on July 17 following the king’s speech, which will set out the government’s proposed policies and legislation for the coming session.
