Why did you become an MP?

Why did you become an MP?

Oona King (Author and Former Member of Parliament) gives expert video advice on: Why did you become an MP?; How do you get a job as an MP?; What makes a good MP? and more...

I became an MP - really unoriginally because I wanted to change the world. And, possibly, also because I was a bit of a maladjusted little kid. What little kid, you know, wants to be an MP or prime minister when they're four or five years old? I think that there's something a bit wrong there. Because it was like I felt things were unfair and my mum had a really big impact on the way I felt because she would always say to me "this isn't fair, that's not fair" and "look there's children starving on TV. Why? Because the politicians aren't doing their job properly." and so I kind of felt maybe if I was a politician and I tried to do my job properly, maybe I became an MP because I just wanted to please my mum, I don't know.