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9 Jul 2024

Hundreds of MPs descend on parliament to be sworn in

Senior Political Correspondent

The House of Commons was bursting at the seams as the new parliament began its first sitting.

Sir Keir Starmer made his first speech from the dispatch box with an overflowing government bench behind him.

And while swearing in hundreds of new MPs could take as long as three full days, the new political order is already beginning to take shape.