Live: New MPs sworn into House of Commons following general election
Watch live as new MPs are sworn into the House of Commons on Tuesday 9 July, following the general election.
There will be 411 MPs representing Labour thanks to their landslide win, while the Conservatives form the opposition with 121 seats.
The Liberal Democrats take 72 seats in the Commons, with the SNP on nine, Reform UK on five and the Green Party on four.
Once sworn in, Labour’s Diane Abbott will earn the symbolic title Mother of the House.
The moniker is given to the female MP with the longest continuous service.
Ms Abbott, 70, was first elected in June 1987 - becoming the first black woman elected to the House of Commons.
Some believed that her ally, Jeremy Corbyn, would become Father of the House.
But Sir Edward Leigh, 73, Conservative MP for Gainsborough, pipped him to the title, as he was sworn in moments before Mr Corbyn after the June 1983 election.
Elsewhere, the youngest MP is believed to be Sam Carling, 22, the new Labour MP for North West Cambridgeshire.
He narrowly won the seat, with Conservative candidate Shailesh Vara just 39 votes behind.
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Has anyone got a timestamp for Nigel Farage being sworn in?
They need to build a bigger house
2:39:32
What's the name of the lady with black hair who swore in most of the MPs? She was preceded in her role by a man and was followed by a lady.
Instead of swearing allegiance to king charles. Why not swear to uphold their manifestos ?
Ed davey
Where was Corbyn and the Independents?
Like a rowdy school assembly ....
2:56:07
Nigel farage brought me here after years of listening to someone political but who also spoke love how people call it “common sense” it’s not it’s choosing words wisely funny though I wouldn’t of been here if he didn’t lead me to be here
Have to ask whether it is really necessary, efficient and value-for-money to have three days of swearing in when it could all be over in 5 minutes. And before you yell 'tradition', that's a £million pounds of your and my taxes which could be used for (say) papering Bunter's walls in No. 10.
bayrlalaa
Based Nigel
40 percent took the affirmation over swearing to God. Worrying.
Where was Herr Farage?👍
baruun talin gishyyn hamrinhaa yzyyriig archiv
2:38:40
Selling England by the pound
Why do they do it one at a time. They could what we do in the US swear everybody all at once
Any Sinn Féin member time stamps?