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They are "I Leslie, central Bristol’s only reexamining the future of Avonmouth she says after helping her Conservative MP. Port, which has been the focus of air OF FOUR OF ITS CENTRAL CONSTITUENCIES. WE TALK TO ALL THE WINNERS, INCLUDING not sexy, but they ✔ 96-148 pages two new Labour colleagues, Karin Smyth Although Labour may have closed pollution complaints. THE LONELY BLUE IN A SEA OF RED and Thangam Debbonaire, get settled are important.” in around her, Leslie saw her majority Nationally, although she won’t in Westminster. “They have a lot on increase when analysts predicted a be drawn into any possible new positions their plate – hiring staff, finding ministry legislation which she fears will be possible re-count in her Bristol North in the government, she says she wants to offices and places to live in London – far more damaging than in the lastNews West Opinion constituency. People Culturecontinue to work What's on the idea ofOn a Royal Food & Drink Lifestyle but I’ve just come straight back into my parliament. She strongly opposes the Now the former BBC researcher and College of Teachers, to protect standards old office and it’s pretty much the same abolition of the Human Rights Act and lifeguard returns to Westminster after a and raise the status of the teaching as before.” said she will fight tooth and nail over the remarkable national Tory victory which sees profession. Kerry’s post in the shadow Foreign repeal of the hunting ban. a fresh intake of blue MPs from around the She feels the already simmering Office remains and she says she An “anti-poverty” agenda is her next country and boosts her seniority.www.bristol247.comtension over the planned abolition has some “unfinished business” to goal in terms of pro-active work which “Looking around, there are a whole of the Human Rights Act is Thangam Debbonaire, Bristol West Karin Smyth, Bristol South take care of. she hopes can affect people in lot of faces I don’t recognise,” unjustified, as a suggested Fiery politician ready to defend Bristol’s lowest paid Big shoes to fill But after that she is hinting Bristol, which she feels has been she says on one of her first Bill of Rights should at a career move. “I’ve been neglected. days back in the House of “enshrine the laws in a here three years now and “East Bristol especially Commons. “You never more robust way”. ristol West’s new MP has becoming a living wage city and says she ollowing in the footsteps 191. And in the Labour Party there are in a way there is only so is very detached with the feel senior here though, Finally, on an EU all the fire in her her belly will do everything she can to oppose the of Dawn Primarolo, Bristol something like 99 female MPs now much you can do, so I’ll mayor’s agenda here. but certainly more in-out referendum, and passion for change of a government’s plans to scrap the Human South MP since 1987, which shows how far we have come. ✔ 20,000 copies B F be looking at moving on. They’re not interested in experienced. I feel like she wants Britain politician battle-worn from Rights Act. “I’m absolutely horrified by you would be forgiven for “I hope this encourages more But I’ll be sitting tight until closing off streets for I have come a long way to stay if the union a tight election, but fresh as a daisy to it”, she says. “But it comes as no surprise thinking Karin Smyth might be a little women in all kinds of situations to put a new leader is elected.” waterslides. There are since I was first elected can be “reformed”. Westminster. from the Tories.” intimidated by the shoes she has to fill. themselves forward in politics.” Aside from her party real issues, like poverty five years ago.” “It is important to On her first days following her triumph The extravagantly-named MP won’t But the newly-elected replacement has Since she has been in office with her work, she admits a and fly-tipping. They are Leslie says her remember what the over the Lib Dems and Greens she is be drawn on which direction she wants no such anxieties. “They are enormous two other Labour Bristol colleagues lot of her energy will not sexy, but they are priorities EU was formed for - a already pledging to fight for Bristol’s to go inside her party, once she has shoes, yes, but I have had a lot of time to – Kerry McCarthy and Thangam be “reacting” to Tory important.” back in common market." underrepresented and often-neglected established herself in Westminster. But think about it,” she says on a brief break Debbonaire – she says her work poorest communities. she says she hopes her background in from the Westminster inductions. has been a “very dull” succession of “Although Bristol is an averagely domestic violence support can help, “Me and Dawn, we are cut from the inductions, “just like any job”. wealthy city, there are still children in my adding that she wants to make herself same cloth. We know how to listen and “People don’t really understand that,” Culture constituency living below the poverty line “as useful as possible”. know when to act. I know what she has she adds. “They think it’s just a matter of and that’s not acceptable. It’s going to Whichever way she turns she will done for the people of Bristol South, and taking over straight away but it doesn’t Act fast be a big priority to make sure the people have now-veteran Bristol Labour MP it is the people of Bristol South who are work like that unfortunately. – funding runs www.bristol247.com/clubs on the lowest incomes have someone Kerry McCarthy and newly-elected Karin important at the end of the day.” “Our work so far has been very out in standing up for them,” she says, setting Smyth for support. “I’m delighted to Among the things Smyth promises practical – setting up offices in Bristol Grants for out her stall. have such good comrades,” she says. to focus on for those very constituents and London and finding our way around September ✔ Distributed across Bristol in supermarkets, train stations, Given Labour’s result in the General “I’m also just really proud of the fact that are apprenticeships, housing and the the corridors of Westminster, which Best of the rest Election and the formation of a majority Bristol is the only city in the UK to have protection of the NHS. happen to all look the same.” Tory government, Debbonaire may have an all-female group of MPs.” “I think the job, whether we are in Culture More top club nights this month another battle on her hands to make the She is also proud to become government or not, is the same.