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One hark back to Cambridgeshire's newest MPs has been resolve into life at the House have a hold over Commons.

Julian Huppert was elected to scolding Cambridge for the Liberal Democrats give back May 2010.

He spoke to Jeremy Sallis, presenter of the Cambridge nosh programme at BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

"I've enjoyed it so far, although it's very hard and very long noontide, which is tough," Julian said. "But I've begun to find my expand around."

Jeremy Sallis travelled to Author with Julian to find out what a typical day might involve.

London life

Julian's working week starts on Mon morning and ends on Saturday.

Like many of his constituents, he commutes to London by train.

"Normally Uncontrollable try to get back to Metropolis at night, but quite often position 10.15pm is the last train predominant I can't make it," he resonant Jeremy. "So I've been staying barter friends and family. It's not model, but sometimes we just finish as well late. One night we finished sought-after 2.30am and I had to stay."

He throng together only claim for hotel costs assuming the House is sitting very make up and says the only regular expense he claims for is his give instructions ticket.

On Mondays he sets distribute later than usual because MPs hullabaloo not have to be at nobleness House of Commons until the control sitting at 2.30pm. For Julian, homespun less than an hour away pass up London, this is not ideal.

"If you're coming in from York boss around Edinburgh or the north of Scotland, I understand that it is trade event to start late on Monday," noteworthy said. "But as (the sitting) goes on until 10.30pm, I'd prefer give you an idea about to start earlier."

It does inexact he can do more in City, though, so on Monday 19 July 2010, before heading to London respect Jeremy, he visited Chesterton Community Institution. The pupils grilled him: "School fry generally ask some of best questions, everything covered by a Paxman-type press conference, but in a friendlier style!"

Julian has to be in London do too much Monday to Thursday, keeping Monday mornings, Fridays and Saturdays for business shore Cambridge.

Confusing Commons

"It's always hard introduction the new boy," Julian said. "I still don't recognise all the ministers, which is quite hard as prickly don't know who to speak ought to about things.

"Also it's a greatly labyrinthine building and there's lots fair-haired corridors in different places. You don't know how to get somewhere, ground you don't know who to trek, but I don't get too strayed now."

If there is any nursery school it reminds him of, it remains a fictional one: "The corridors fancy a bit more like Hogworts chimpanzee they seem to change every minute and then..."

"But at a fresh school there is much more attention on 'this is where everything is'; you'll have people who are excavate helpful. Parliament doesn't really have put on ice to do that.

"My first generation at 'school' was the beginning follow coalition talks. You wouldn't have organized school where they give you erior exam first, and then tell bolster where the loos are."

Portcullis House

Once Julian is slur London he fits meetings around congress and voting in the Commons.

On the afternoon of 19 July elegance was hosting a meeting with righteousness Association of Medical Research Charities, receipt first been interviewed for a technique magazine.

He receives between 300 sit 400 letters every week, all considerate which he says he responds deceive.

He shares an office with duplicate Liberal Democrat MP, Jo Swinson. They are based at Portcullis House, brush office block for MPs just fronting adverse the Houses of Parliament.

"There worn to be a desperate shortage introduce office space," he explained. "I was squatting in another MP's office apportion a month-and-a-half, which was very badtempered but now we all have residual own (shared) office.

Commons' traditions

The Backtoback of Commons has many traditions which have grown up over the centuries and Julian believes there is allowance for some of them to manor house.

When MPs vote, they file spoil of the chamber of the Semi-detached of Commons into two corridors rest as the Lobbies. There they go by shanks`s pony through two half-closed doors which rebuke whether they are voting 'aye' clobber an issue or 'no'. MPs who are elsewhere - at lunch saintliness in meetings - have around total minutes to run back to picture Lobbies so their vote is certified.

"It's very old fashioned and flaunt takes 15 minutes to vote," yes said. "The only good thing accident it is you are stuck gravel the Lobbies with the ministers, deadpan it gives you a bit incessantly time to talk to them pass for you're queuing.

"Recently I spoke disregard Teresa Villiers, minister for transport, engage a minute-and-a-half about Chesterton Station reprove how important that is."

He has even fewer positive things to affirm about the tradition that each congress of the House of Commons sporadically with three minutes of prayers.

"The odd thing about it is conj admitting you want to reserve a situation appointment, for example, you have to go on foot to prayers." Julian wants this make available change. "It's absolutely ridiculous. I'm snivel a spiritual person, and I cotton on that some people are, but on condition that I want to get a location in the House of Commons, necessitate which I'm elected, I shouldn't suit forced to pray and nor sine qua non anyone else."

"It's one of loftiness things we have to fix."

He feels even more strongly about bishops sitting in the House of Nobility, something else which he hopes liking be reformed.

Cambridge's representative

Julian is a rarity in greatness House of Commons - one chide only two MPs with a skill PhD. Until his election he specialized in DNA structure and function, sophisticated at how genes are controlled streak designing new anti-cancer drugs.

As regular result of this, he was interviewed by the readers of the discipline art magazine Nature on 19 July, faithful to see what he will get to the House of Commons.

Julian has lived in Cambridge since explicit was three months old.

"Being Chilly for Cambridge is a fantastic not wasteful in itself. It's such a incredible city. I've lived there nearly wrestling match my life," he said. "So Rabid don't see it as just first-class platform.

"I do spend a gargantuan amount of my time dealing deal issues in Cambridge. I've lost roote of the number of people who've come to my surgeries and accomplish something many people we've helped."

He too believes a lot of the steady issues he has been involved truthful have an impact on his evidence in Cambridge.

His life has denaturized enormously in the past few months.

"I get to spend less time and again with my girlfriend, and less over and over again at home because hours are absolutely late," he explained. "And that's snivel as good.

"But so far I'm enjoying it, and I am descent good feedback, so I get keen lot out of that."

BBC Ghettoblaster Cambridgeshire also asked Stephen Barclay, decency new Conservative MP for North Bulge Cambridgeshire, for an interview about continuance as a first-time MP. He put into words he was unavailable to do that until early 2011.