The new faces in the House of Commons will have to “desk” until the offices are allocated

New MPs face the need for a “hot desk” in Parliament as authorities rush to find them offices.

Dozens of MPs were heading to the Commons on Monday to begin their first full week of work.

Some arrived on Friday shortly after the election results were announced in the early hours of the morning, giving Labor a crushing 174-seat majority, with others over the weekend.

They are shown around Westminster by officials who explain the different routes to different parts of the sprawling parliamentary estate.

They are also provided with lockers to store their belongings while the office allocation is worked out.

Like many new workers arriving in an office for the first time, they are given “welcome packs” to give them some insight into how Parliament works.

They will have to set up their own office to deal with constituency and parliamentary matters.

They will have very little time to settle before they are asked to elect a President tomorrow when the new Parliament meets for the first time.

Speaker of the House Sir Edward Leigh (the longest continuously serving MP in Parliament) will preside over the election of the Speaker.

If the former speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, indicates that he is willing to be elected as speaker, Sir Edward will call an MP to propose a motion to take the chair as speaker. If the motion is approved by Parliament, which is expected to be the case, Sir Lindsay will take the chair as speaker-elect.

If the proposal is rejected, an election will be held by secret ballot.

As the new MPs settled in, the former MPs who lost their seats were packing up.