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Who is Britain's sexiest MP?
So far, the top places are dominated by the new intake of 2010 MPs. The top 16 spots went to women when rediff last visited the website.
Luciana Berger
Leading the female camp was Labour's Luciana Berger. The Liverpool Wavertree MP had a shaky start as a candidate at the general election after she confessed to not knowing who local football legend Bill Shankly was. But she definitely is popular with the website voters.
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Who is Britain's sexiest MP?
Conservative MP Perry Mordaunt (Portsmouth North) enjoyed a top spot only to pushed to the second rank by Berger. In the 2010 general election, she won the seat with a 8.6 per cent swing from Labour, giving her a 7,289 majority.
Interestingly, Mordaunt participated in a Vanity Fair photo shoot during March 2010. The photoshoot, dubbed by the UK's Daily Mail as featuring 'Cameron's Cuties', featured Mordaunt posing in designer attire, alongside twelve other female, Conservative, prospective parliamentary candidates.
Amanda Platell, writing in the newspaper, was fiercely critical of the stunt, arguing that many candidates such as Mordaunt "have been chosen for the wrong reason -- to carry David Cameron's message that the Tories have changed. Not changed their principles, but their appearance."
Who is Britain's sexiest MP?
The former television presenter turned Wirral West Conservative MP, Esther McVey, is in third place.
In the general election in May 2010, McVey won the seat of Wirral West, with 42.5 per cent of the votes cast, beating Labour's Phil Davies by 2436 votes. With 4363 votes on the website she is proving to be a tough competitor for both Berger and Mordaunt.
Who is Britain's sexiest MP?
The Conservatives boast the sexiest line-up of women MPs. Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West) and Claire Perry (Devizes) find themselves among the top 10 MPs and they definitely are giving their other female counterparts a tough fight.
Who is Britain's sexiest MP?
UK's Gujarati woman MP Priti Patel (Conservative) was ranked 26 on website. In the 2010 election Patel triumphed by a massive margin at Witham becoming the first women of Indian descent to enter Britain's directly elected national legislature.
Who is Britain's sexiest MP?
Zac Goldsmith
Multi-millionaire Tory Zac Goldsmith topped the male list with 1866 votes, prompting one colleague who declined to be named to comment that the blond environmentalist should 'be seen but not heard'.
Labour's Tristram Hunt was a close second among the males.
Who is Britain's sexiest MP?
David Miliband
Labour leadership hopeful David Miliband was among the top 10, but later slipped the 34th position. His only consolation that his younger brother Ed, who elbowed him out of the way to win the Labour crown, ranked 98th.
Who is Britain's sexiest MP?
David Cameron and Nick Clegg
Prime Minister David Cameron was deemed to be the 174th most attractive MP in UK and his deputy Nick Clegg was a lowly 189th. Former PM Gordon Brown appeared 265th on the list.
Who is Britain's sexiest MP?
Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary was the only cabinet minister to make it in the top 50, ranking sixth at one stage.
"I don't think sites like this are particularly desirable or helpful. We should be judged by what we say and what we do, not on our appearance. It can deter people from becoming MPs if there is too much of this sort of thing," the Daily Mail quoted Sheila Gilmore, a Labour MP as saying.
The site has been created by Francis Boulle, an entrepreneur who has appeared on the reality television show Made in Chelsea. He claims it will help people to get to know their Parliamentary representative but admits that it is likely to cause offence.
* The ratings can change every few hours because they depend on constant votes from the public.