Nuneaton gets its first female MP as Labour’s Jodie Gosling takes the Tory seat

Jodie Gosling wrote her name into the town’s history books as she became Nuneaton’s first female MP. The mother-of-three wrested the city’s seat in Parliament from Tory Marcus Jones at the general election.

The Arley businesswoman took the seat with 15,216 votes, while Mr Jones came second with 11,737 votes. There was a moment he told CoventryLive it could take days to sink in.

Hoarse from beatings and hawking for the past seven weeks, she said: “I knew it would be a possibility but I’m overjoyed.

“My kids are over the moon, they gave me a big hug before I went out and wished me luck, I’m absolutely over the moon. My two oldest know, but the youngest is in bed, he wanted to come with me to the count. .

“I can’t wait to tell him.”

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Next stop now will be London and the corridors of power in Parliament and she takes the many issues raised with her on the doorstep. “Anti-social behaviour, low pay and general lack of support and access to services, NHS, schools, pits. I always say politics is about potholes and dog poop because those are the things that affect people.

“Mainly, lack of investment.”

She said she stood in her first by-election in 2016, but said she never thought she would be an MP. “No, it was never part of the plan, but I think we need more women and more life experience,” she said. “I can not wait.”

In her winner’s acceptance speech after the result was declared at 1.45am this morning (July 5), she thanked her supporters and family, before adding: “I want to try and give Nuneaton a future better”.

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