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Last week's tumbleweed moment is over. This week it's all systems go.

Although our new intake have yet to find their offices they're certainly finding their feet.

Priti Patel, the new Conservative MP for the new seat of Witham isn't too phased, as she has worked round Westminster before for Conservative Central Office.

"I will be campaingning to save Witham High street. It's on its knees and I want to support the independent traders who, I think, have had a raw deal," she tells me.

" Although we recognise that the finances aren't good it doesn't mean nothing can be done."

"It's schools and education," says Richard Fuller, the new Conservative MP for Bedford, who squeezed in with a majority of 1,353.

"We have a change from the middle school system to a two tier system and we need to know if the money is there to go ahead with it."

"And then there's the ", he sighs,"and I am in meetings this week about the fate of the ..."

It's all go for these new faces.

George Freeman, new Conservative MP for Keith Simpson's old seat of Mid Norfolk, was also all fired up.

He's been promoting the , a vision for a high tech future to revive rural economies for some time now.

"Now I can finally put it all into practice," he enthuses.

He explained his plan for a new rail network with spurs to King's Lynn and Cromer.

There may be no money but if ambition alone counted for anything this lot could go far.

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