“I’m everything a Tory shouldn’t be,” says Dehenna Davison, the newly elected MP for Bishop Auckland, who grew up on a council estate in Sheffield, the daughter of a self-employed stonemason and a nursery nurse.

Davison embodies a new type of young Conservative MP in the 2019 intake: state school-educated, working class, Brexit supporting and socially liberal. She is one of eight Tory MPs under 30 who have been dubbed “Boris’s Babies”, a label they are quick to reject as “patronising”.

Looking at this youthful group gives a fascinating insight into the future of the Tory party. There is not an Old Etonian in sight, and 24 are openly gay or bisexual, the most of any party. Labour has at least 18 — boosting the