MP Carolyn Harris has spent lockdown serving up piles of chips to hungry kids and NHS heroes but is chuffed to have stuck to her diet after shedding seven stone.
The former barmaid and dinner lady – who, as Keir Starmer ’s Parliamentary Private Secretary has the key job of covering the Labour leader’s back in the house – has shrunk from 19 stone to 12 in a year, dropping from a size 24 to 16.
She was ready to show off the results in her sparkly dress for a Strictly Come Dancing-style contest in South Wales – before Covid-19 scuppered her plans. “It’s unfortunately been postponed,” says the campaigning Swansea East MP. “That gives us longer to practise American Smooth to Michael Buble.