Parliament or bust for Miss Great Britain

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008

LONDON (AFP) — Miss Great Britain vowed to "put the beauty back into politics" Monday as she launched a bid to get elected to parliament that could get Prime Minister Gordon Brown sweating.

Gemma Garrett, 26, is standing for the newly-formed Beauties for Britain party. And the busty Belfast blonde could get Brown all hot under the collar with her antidote agenda to "serious and boring" politics.

Garrett is standing at the May 22 by-election in the Crewe and Nantwich constituency in north-west England. The seat was held by Gwyneth Dunwoody, a stalwart in Brown's governing Labour Party, who died last month.

Brown is already feeling the heat as Labour were battered in local elections in England and Wales last Thursday. Losing Dunwoody's seat in parliament's...