In her first broadcast interview after her “stunning” by-election win, the new Labour MP for Wellingborough, Gen Kitchen, told reporters how she cut short her honeymoon to campaign.
She told him Labour won “by a higher majority than we thought”, and is “so grateful” to all of those who turned out to vote.
Asked how significant today’s victory is, Ms Kitchen said there is “clearly an appetite for change and clearly an appetite for a fresh start”.
On Reform’s success in the vote share, she said they ran a “very slick campaign” both in person and online, and she commended them.
Ms Kitchen also refused to criticise the Tories for selecting the partner of ousted MP Peter Bone to stand in the seat, saying: “I’m not one to judge a woman by who she ties herself too, and I think Helen is very competent in her own right.”
She referenced cutting short her honeymoon in her victory speech, and asked more about that, she told Jon: “I got married on 20 October, and we were in Suffolk when the call came [asking] did I even want to apply for selection.
“I was on a beach with two dogs in my hand and a fish and chips in the other, and my husband looking on saying, are we leaving now? And we did.
“We packed up the car and we went home. And we went ready to start campaigning for selection.”
She said her husband was very understanding, them having been together for 15 years.
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