By Lucy Caulkett-
Labour’s new star MP, Nadia Whittome is the freshly celebrated face of parliament after topping the poll in Nottingham East with a 17,393 majority. The young 23 year old was brought in to replace Labour’s candidate after Chris Leslie quit the party to stand as an independent.
She is a shining star whose political career is expected to make her a role model for youths in the Uk. She has pledged to donate a large chunk of her MP salary to the local community.Ms Whittome has promised to pay a significant more than half of her £79,468 MP salary back to the local community.
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The former hate crime support worker expressed her surprise at getting the MP post. She said:
“I never thought a few months ago when I was applying for Christmas temp work, minimum wage work, that I wouldn’t need it because I’d be an MP by Christmas,” she said.
Ms Whittome, who was raised in a single-parent household in the city, said she first got involved in politics as a teenager in 2013.
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“What politicised me was the introduction of the bedroom tax,” she said.
“I was living in The Meadows, where I still live now, and we were being directly impacted by austerity measures.
“I saw first-hand my neighbours, friends and family struggling to make ends meet and put food on the table.
“That’s what made me mobilise and join the fight back against the Tory government.”
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Ms Whittome has already said a significant chunk of her £79,468 MP salary will be given back to the local community.
“I’ve pledged to take an average workers’ wage which the Office for National Statistics calculates as being just over £35,000 a year,” she said.
“I’ll be donating the rest to local causes. That includes charities, strike funds, grassroots projects that are working so hard in the face of austerity.”
She defended Labour’s election manifesto, but blamed the poor election result on the domination of Brexit in the elections.
“The reason we lost the election is not because we were too left-wing, it’s because Brexit dominated the election,” she said.
“I think there are many good MPs in our party who would make good leaders. We don’t know who’s standing yet.”
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