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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.
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Hull Daily Mail (UK)
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June 28, 2008
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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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