Keir Mather - Labour's newest MP and 'baby of the House'

Labour's Keir Mather has go the youngest MP successful the House of Commons.

He won the Selby and Ainsty by-election aft overturning a 20,137 bulk and has been nicknamed the "baby of the House".

But who is Labour's caller MP for the North Yorkshire constituency?

Born successful 1998, Mr Mather has go Westminster's youngest MP, astatine 25 years old.

According to his enactment biography, Mr Mather was calved successful Hull and grew up adjacent Selby.

He studied past and authorities astatine Oxford University, graduating with a first-class grade - according to his LinkedIn profile.

Mr Mather has antecedently worked arsenic a parliamentary researcher for shadiness wellness caput Wes Streeting, and much precocious arsenic a elder nationalist affairs advisor astatine the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).

He besides became a governmental enactment student astatine the Blavatnik School of Government, according to the University of Oxford.

In a video connected Labour's website, Mr Mather says helium grew up successful Brough, a colony successful the East Riding country of Yorkshire, and supports the rugby league squad Hull Kingston Rovers.

"There isn't overmuch I emotion much than being down connected the terraces, a spot wherever radical travel together, wherever you're portion of a assemblage and you sing with 1 voice."

After winning his spot successful the North Yorkshire constituency, with a bulk of 4,161, Mr Mather said helium "understood the enormity of what has conscionable happened".

When asked however helium felt astir becoming the "baby of the House", helium joked that helium had "heard acold worse".

Labour person Keir Starmer said the caller MP would beryllium a "fantastic MP who'll present the caller commencement that Selby and Ainsty deserves".

Labour's lawman leader, Angela Rayner, described the effect successful Selby and Ainsty arsenic a "historic win", adding she was "pretty definite [Mr Mather]... understands immoderate of the challenges his procreation faces".

Speaking connected BBC Breakfast, Ms Rayner said: "Being 25, he's of that procreation that is looking astatine insecure work, looking astatine not being capable to ever ain their ain location - and looking astatine the challenges that they look with outgo of surviving now, that leaves them successful this spiral of not being capable to get connected successful life."