New North MPs predicted to make impact
All of our new MPs will be hoping to make an impact in Westminster next week.
But four of them in particular have already been highlighted as having the potential to get noticed.
They all feature in a list published by magazine today.
It selects the 50 new MPs most likely to make an impact.
Two of the new Northern women entering parliament make it into the list.
The new Labour MP for Newcastle Central Chi Onwurah makes it to number 37.
Bridget Phillipson is also in there at 33. She's already become noteworthy for being one of the youngest new MPs (she's 26), and for being the first elected to the new parliament as her Houghton and Sunderland South seat was the first to declare.
The magazine also picks out Wansbeck's new Labour MP Ian Lavery.
As you'd expect from the President of the National Union of Mineworkers, he has traditional socialist views, and that's why he's in at 14.
But the top spot from the region goes to Conservative Rory Stewart. The Penrith and the Border MP has already attracted attention for his colourful CV.
Total Politics says Mr Stewart might also pose a problem for David Cameron though.
The Prime Minister has said he's keen to get political outsiders like Rory Stewart into the Commons.
But as the magazine points out: "A large test of Cameron's leadership will be how happily he can accommodate such free-thinking and independent characters in his party."
It also wonders how a maverick character like Stewart will fare in the Commons.
Of course others not on the list may also make an impression both in Westminster and locally.
The impact of all these new MPs is just one of the fascinating facets to this new parliament.
I'm Richard Moss, the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s Political Editor for the North East and Cumbria. Welcome to my irreverent - but hopefully insightful - northern take on reporting politics for Look North and the Politics Show.
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