In the wings

Jane Wright, 29, investment banker living in Bermondsey. Single. Standing in Walthamstow. "The party is changing rapidly, with a lot more young women coming in and more of an ethnic mix."

Annunziata Rees-Mogg, 24, from Westminster. Editor of the Eurosceptic European Journal, and latest in a line of Tory activists in her family. Still seeking a constituency. If she finds and wins a seat she could become the youngest MP in the Commons. "I don't think the Commons or the Conservative backbenches are some gentlemen's club."

Laetitia Cash, 30, a law student and local councillor in Shropshire. The single daughter of Tory MP Bill Cash is also seeking a constituency. "We've got to make politics sexy again," she said.