Meet Parliament’s class of 2019

SAM TARRY is pounding the streets of Ilford South with an army of Labour activists. The party’s nomination for the safe London seat became free earlier this year after the sitting MP, Mike Gapes, defected to another party in despair at Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. Mr Tarry, a trade unionist, got his first taste of politics campaigning outside his predecessor’s office against the Iraq war. Mr Gapes “is a warmonger—people in Ilford still haven’t forgiven him for that,” he claims. Labour’s new candidates are quite different from those they are replacing, says Mr Tarry: “We aren’t afraid to say we are socialists.”