Harriet is a rare thing: a new Conservative MP who won her seat at the last election. In Scotland.

She's already been made a whip.

So how come she's rising so fast and what's it like entering the Commons when your party has suffered a historic defeat?

And how has living in rural communities shaped her particular brand of conservatism?

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Show 375. Harriet Cross