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Lee Dillon is the new Liberal Democrat MP for Newbury. He knocked the Conservative incumbent Laura Farris off her perch with a majority of nearly 2,400. He’s been ‘Tweeting’ excitedly from the House of Commons where he has been getting his pass sorted out. And he has managed to find the Strangers Bar (one of a few fine hostelries in the Palace of Westminster) and get in the photo of newly elected MPs. “It is an amazing building and having been a follower of politics my whole life, clearly there is an excitement about being in the building,” he says. “It was a really well organised induction pr…

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