Most 22-year-olds spend summers toiling in low-paid jobs, wondering what to do with their lives. But not Labour’s Sam Carling, who has devoted this month to a “whirlwind” fight to become MP for North West Cambridgeshire in the general election. It’s a long shot, but if he wins he will be one of the first MPs born this century.
And he’s not the only one. Sir Keir Starmer has amassed an army of young candidates, fresh faced and ready for July 4 — with an unusually high number in their twenties and mid-thirties, and some who still live at home with their parents. Anyone born after May 1987 has never voted for a successful Labour government — and a new generation of MPs is hoping to represent them in the Commons.
