Only an MP since the last election, she has already been labelled a culture warrior but has amassed a tight-knit group of supporters
Down the stone steps in a tucked-away corner of Westminster Hall, the Conservative backbencher Miriam Cates can occasionally be found on a weekday lunchtime playing piano at a chapel service for Christian MPs.at the National Conservatism conference.
Despite having only been an MP since the last election, Cates was unabashed about what she identified as As one of the few new intake of MPs who has not taken an unpaid job as parliamentary private secretary – viewed as the first step on the ladder to becoming a minister – she is able to remain an outspoken backbencher.
She has amassed a tight-knit group of supporters, many of whom contacted the Guardian to offer their support after she was approached for an interview. Andrea Leadsom, the former Commons leader, praised Cates’s “fantastic” work supporting children in early years education, while the veteran Brexiter Bill Cash called her “one of the most diligent MPs I have come across in my 39 years in the House”.
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