UK general election: Nine doctors are elected as MPs

Nine doctors have been elected as MPs in the 2024 UK general election.Four doctors are now MPs in the new Labour government, led by the new prime minister, Keir Starmer, while five are among the Conservative MPs elected to the new parliament.At least 34 doctors stood for election as MPs in the 2024 general election,1 fewer than in 2019, when 51 stood and 10 were elected.For Labour, the emergency medicine doctor Rosena Allin-Khan held on to her seat in Tooting, south London, and three other doctors were newly elected. Public health doctor Beccy Cooper won her seat in Worthing West, GP Simon Opher was elected in Stroud, and ear, nose, and throat surgeon Peter Prinsley won in Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, a seat that had been Conservative since the 1800s.The doctors elected as Conservative MPs were all previously MPs in the 2019-24 parliament: Navy doctor Andrew Murrison in South…
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