Rosie Duffield has gone from enjoying relative anonymity in the community she has lived in for 19 years to finding herself a high profile figure

If there’s one element of summer recess that Rosie Duffield would like to bring back to Westminster with her this week, it’s a kilometre-long inflatable obstacle course.

“I would absolutely love that, it would be very good therapy wouldn’t it? I can just see Boris Johnson doing that kind of thing.” Ms Duffield, the new Labour MP for Canterbury, tried it out at a 6,000-person scout jamboree. “I was bouncing around thinking ‘I can’t believe this is work’.”

It is a sense of disbelief that has followed Ms Duffield, 46, a former teaching assistant and single mother, ever since she “accidentally” won a historic victory in her home seat of Canterbury in this year’s general election.

The seat, which had been held by Sir Julian