Commons people Articles

Wow. That went fast. Despite feeling like we’re still the new boys and girls and liable to be removed from the building at any notice, the 2010 intake have now clocked up over a year of parliamentary experience. Much has changed over the last year.

The first rule of the whips’ office is: you do not talk about the whip’s office. Well, not quite. But since becoming one of Labour’s assistant whips in October’s reshuffle life has been very busy.

Colleagues, the press, my constituents – wherever I go it’s the question I am asked most. Like speculation over a celebrity marriage, we’re all wondering if the coalition will go the full five years or if it will all end in tears much before then.