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By-election beauty queen says she's 'deadly serious' about becoming an mp ; Beauty queen Gemma Garrett says voters should take her seriously in her bid to become an MP.

Beauty queen Gemma Garrett says voters should take her seriously in her bid to become an MP.

The 26-year-old glamour model is standing for the Miss Great Britain Party against David Davis in the Haltemprice and Howden by- election.

Having won the Miss Great Britain title earlier this year, she is now aiming for a seat in Westminster.

Launching her campaign in the same hotel where Mr Davis had formally opened his own campaign an hour earlier, she arrived fashionably late but with a perfect excuse.

"We drove up here overnight and I only got to bed at 6am. Trust me, I didn't look like a beauty queen an hour ago!" she joked.

Clutching a designer Union Jack handbag bought by a friend in New York, ...

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