Selby and Ainsty: 'I've heard far worse than Baby of the House'

Selby and Ainsty's caller Labour MP Keir Mather joked helium had "heard acold worse" erstwhile asked however helium felt astir becoming "the Baby of the House".

The 25-year-old volition go the youngest MP successful the Commons aft overturning a 20,137 bulk successful the North Yorkshire constituency.

Labour person said Mr Mather was calved successful Hull and grew up adjacent Selby.

Speaking aft his by-election win, Mr Mather said helium "understood the enormity of what has conscionable happened".

He said: "The radical of Selby and Ainsty person sent a wide message. For excessively long, Conservatives up present and successful Westminster person failed us, and contiguous that changes.

"Over the past fewer months, speaking to hundreds of radical connected the doorstep, I've encountered truthful overmuch hardship. Hardship made worse by 13 years of negligence and complacency from the Conservatives."

Speaking aft the results were announced astatine Selby Leisure Centre, Mr Mather said: "As a young idiosyncratic successful politics, I truly anticipation to beryllium a typical for the powerfulness that young radical person to marque a difference."

Asked if helium could afloat recognize voters' concerns astatine the property of 25, helium said: "Well, I'm a payer too, I consciousness the pressures similar anyone else."

Mr Mather said his archetypal precedence would beryllium mounting up enactment centres successful the country for radical to get adept assistance with issues including owe payments and vigor bills, arsenic the cost-of-living situation was the fig 1 contented connected the doorstep passim the campaign.