Michelle Welsh, who took Sherwood Forest off Tory frontbencher Mark Spencer, has got straight to work in her constituency. By opposing new houses…

The new Labour MP’s first ever meeting of her parliamentary career was with the local NIMBY group “Hucknall Against Whyburn Farm Development“, which opposes new homes being built in some fields. For some reason the campaign even has its own merchandise…

For all the excitable reporting that disciplined Labour is “waging a war against NIMBYs“, the frontbench will obviously have to get through swathes of their own MPs if it wants to force rapid development. Campaign in poetry, govern in prose…