Meet Emma Dent Coad, Kensington’s class warrior

Emma Dent Coad, Kensington’s new Labour MP, has a rule: ‘Don’t do personal.’ Except, that is, when it comes to David Cameron (‘Camoron’), George Osborne (‘double dipstick’), Boris Johnson (‘baby-daddy’), Nick Clegg (‘puny’), a local Tory rival (‘freeloading scumbag’), politicians generally (‘knaves, sophists, deceivers’), the judge running the Grenfell Tower inquiry (doesn’t ‘understand human beings’), the Queen (‘Elizabeth Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’), Prince Charles (‘massive tax evasion’), the Duke of Cambridge (‘so thick’), the Duchess of Cambridge (‘Kate Kardashian’), Prince Harry (‘playboy prince’) and black Conservative London Assembly member Shaun Bailey (‘token ghetto boy’).

Dent Coad came to politics late, but during her half-year in Parliament she has experienced enough drama for a whole career. No one expected her to win the Kensington seat, held by Tories since it was created — and it took three recounts for her victory by 20 votes to be confirmed. The unlikely win made her a symbol of the Corbyn surge, taking Labour’s hard-left message to Britain’s richest streets.