Education secretary Michael Gove told MPs he'd been invited by a Labour MP to visit the Potteries in Staffordshire but "welshed on the deal".

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It's all well and good "fancying the shiny new lawnmower someone else has got" said one MP but he'd never thought it a good strategy.

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Well first of all I have met quite a lot of candidates from the ethnic minorities and of course in the last Parliament we had a sitting MP and I would want to see that increase, I genuinely would, I'd also like to see the number of women MPs increase.

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