5 new MPs with eye-catching CVs

From an Only Connect winner to a former dolphin trainer with Terry Nutkins.

The General Election delivered 140 new MPs to Parliament.

Here are five of the new intake with particularly eye-catching CVs.

1. Aaron Bell (Conservative) – Newcastle-under-Lyme

Conservative candidate Aaron Bell speaks after he is declared the winner of the Newcastle-Under-Lyme seat in the 2019 General Election — Aaron Bell has been victorious on quiz shows including The Krypton Factor and Only Connect (Peter Byrne/PA)

2. Virginia Crosbie (Conservative) – Ynys Mon

Virginia Crosbie, who turned Ynys Mon blue for the first time since the 1970s, has one item that stands out on a varied CV that also includes a microbiology degree, working as a maths teacher and a stint at GlaxoWellcome – she trained dolphins with Animal Planet host Terry Nutkins at Woburn Safari Park. “We would have parties for the children and they would get to meet the dolphins,” she told the Essex Gazette in 2018. “One child actually jumped in before we could stop her but she got out fine.”

3. Dehenna Davison (Conservative) – Bishop Auckland

4. Danny Kruger (Conservative) – Devizes

Cook, writer and broadcaster Prue Leith, with daughter Li-Da Kruger (left) and her son Danny Kruger and his wife Emma, after she become a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) from the Princess Royal during the investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle — Danny Kruger was at Windsor Castle when his mother Prue Leith was made a Commander of the British Empire (Steve Parsons/PA)

5. Nadia Whittome (Labour) – Nottingham East

Nadia Whittome, a 23-year-old project worker for a social enterprise, became the youngest MP in Parliament after Thursday’s poll when she was elected to represent Nottingham East. She has gained media attention for promising to keep only £35,000 of her MP’s salary, donating the rest to charity. “It’s not berating MPs for taking the full salary,” she told The Independent. “It’s not saying MPs don’t deserve the £79,000. It’s saying workers need a pay rise – carers, teaching assistants, nurses – and I’ll take mine when they take theirs.”