John Whitby, the new Labour MP for the Derbyshire Dales, has been attracting attention for his Stakhanovite work ethic, dubiously claiming to be working 40 hours a week as a City Councillor alongside his job as an MP. Perhaps everything is not as it seems…

48 hours is the weekly working hours limit someone can normally work per week (under legislation introduced and championed by Labour), leaving Whitby theoretically with a paltry eight hours a week for his £92,000 per annum MP job – not bad for a part time gig. Seeing as the House sits for around 30 weeks a year that’s an hourly rate of £378…

Whitby’s vast appetite for work may have something to do with the precarious position Derby City Council find themselves in. Their leader was recently replaced after a vote of no confidence and the council desperately need Whitby to remain in his post and shore up their tiny majority. He missed a hustings in his Derbyshire Dales constituency to vote on a City Council matter. A poor call as Labour lost the vote anyway…

His constituents aren’t happy. Many have complained of unanswered emails and phone calls, while Whitby hasn’t set up a constituency office yet, or even spoken in Parliament. A risky strategy for someone with a razor thin majority of 350. So much for “country before party”…

You would be forgiven for thinking Henry Tufnell- a 32-year-old Old Radleian who grew up on his parents’ 2,000 acre estate in the Cotswolds – was a Tory. Yet the new MP for Mid and South Pembrokeshire, the spitting image of a young aristo, is one of many new Labour parliamentarians in line for a hefty inheritance. More red princes and princesses to be revealed soon…

Tufnell is descended from typical Tory origins. His father Mark fights for our landed gentry’s interests in his role as President of the Country Land and Business Association, while his mother Rosina was once High Sheriff of Gloucestershire. The CLA’s 28,000 members control over ten million acres…

After attending Radley and an Ivy League university in the United States, Tufnell trained as a barrister. We presume it was here he met his fellow barrister wife Poppy, whose full name is Poppy Elisabeth Charlotte Reed Rimington-Pounder. Yes you read that correctly…

Tufnell’s selection for the Pembrokeshire seat ruffled a few feathers in Wales. His connection to the constituency, where second home owners are charged 200% council tax, comes through his mother’s holiday home near St Davids, known locally as the county’s poshest area. Another victory for the Labour parachute regiment…

To appeal to Pembrokeshire’s rural voters, Tufnell highlighted his farming origins. He stated on his website: “I grew up in a farming family and have spent many Easters lambing and many summers doing the harvest.” He cites: “hard work, community and caring for others” as his values, yet at the time of writing he is yet to set up a constituency office more than six weeks after the election. Ewe’ve got to be joking…

And if you fancy working for the man Tatler are calling Westminster’s most handsome MP, you can apply to be Tufnell’s constituency assistant here.  Stunning views in Pembrokeshire…