The Manchester University graduate turned a 5,815 Tory deficit into a 2,951 majority. We know that people have died due to austerity.” All right, but that is not what she tweeted. Despite the grim outlook for the Labour Party and its outgoing leader, Whittome credits Corbyn with shifting the center-ground in British politics toward policies that are more friendly to young people, like ending austerity and pledging to decarbonize the economy. Having run unsuccessfully for a local council seat, she beat stiff competition to be selected as the party’s candidate for the safe seat of Nottingham East after the incumbent Labour MP, the Corbyn critic Chris Leslie, defected to the short-lived Independent Group for Change. But she insists she loved the jobs she got instead, as a care worker and a hate-crime project worker. (Its former occupant, Chris Leslie, had quit the party in February in protest against Corbyn’s leadership.) Britain’s youngest MP for 350 years “hates” Parliament and might stand down at the next election because too often politics is “just a waste of time”. I don’t want to be back in a PLP [parliamentary Labour party] meeting in five years’ time, talking about losing and winning back our heartlands, but we are talking now about different heartlands: Brixton, Nottingham, Liverpool.” Her city seat is a traditional Labour stronghold, she points out, but one with many more black voters than the towns where Labour lost. “There is plenty of evidence to suggest that people’s views on key values such as concerns over the climate emergency, support for investment in public services rather than privatization — those sorts of broader values do tend to remain with people,” says Matt Henn, a professor of social research at Nottingham Trent University and author of Youthquake, a book about young people’s impact on British politics. She does not consider the timing a coincidence. And I’ll go up to them and have a chat and just get to know them and ask whether they’re in a union,” explains the new Labour MP for Nottingham East, grinning. When a cabbie asked recently if this was her dream job, she hesitated: “I thought: ‘Actually, I don’t think my generation dreams the way that the older generation really did.’ Our dreams are a lot more short-term: they’re things like moving out of the family home, getting a job – any job, really. But I’m also clear that we can’t just follow the conversation with immigration – we need to lead it, too. At the 2015 election, it appeared the Conservatives had won the debate on the welfare state when the opposition Labour Party argued that some welfare cuts were indeed necessary and pledged to not reverse some of them if elected. By signing up you are agreeing to our, How England's COVID-19 Reopening Went Terribly Wrong, Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know now on politics, health and more, © 2020 TIME USA, LLC. These are the struggles that occupy a lot of our thinking. Her politics is intersectional, deftly navigating the prickly places where race, class and other sources of discrimination collide; she expresses sympathy with the Duchess of Sussex’s battle for acceptance in Britain, but she adds that liberation is not only about women at the top: “Even if all the top business leaders were women of colour, that wouldn’t make one jot of difference while lower-paid women of colour were being paid less than £10 an hour for cleaning on zero-hours contracts.”. ", Her father, who represents Oswaldtwistle on Lancashire County Council, said: "I am so proud of my daughter.". Now almost fully recovered, Whittome has had time to process her victory. She will now be Westminster's youngest MP, taking the title from the SNP's Mhairi Black, now aged 25, who first won her Paisley and Renfrewshire seat in 2015 when she was 20. “The bigger problem is that we are talking about ‘Is it tens of thousands, is it hundreds of thousands?’ – it’s certainly not dozens – and ‘How many people do each of these people know?’, to ascertain exactly how many people are mourning and how many people have died. Similar in her progressive outlook to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Congress and Sanna Marin, the new 34 year-old Prime Minister of Finland, Whittome’s politics have been shaped by her generation’s precarious status. After Labour was defeated, its leader Ed Miliband stepped down, and a little-known lawmaker called Jeremy Corbyn stood to replace him. The UK’s youngest MP has said she does not feel welcome in the House of Commons as a “working-class woman of colour”. “I’m not here to become part of the fabric of Westminster; I’m here to change it.”. She feels particularly connected to Desai, who challenged lazy assumptions about female Indian workers: “People thought that she was a docile, subservient Asian woman and she was anything but.”.

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