There’s no rest for the newly-elected.

Will Stone, who became the Labour MP for Swindon North in the early hours of last Friday, had not yet even been to Westminster to get his pass when he spoke to the Adver, certainly didn’t know where he's going to be working and had yet to sort out a staff.

But he’s already getting plenty of emails.

As the dust settled on his victory over sitting Conservative Justin Tomlinson at the general election, Mr Stone said: “It’s astonishing.

“Obviously some of the emails are just local councillor matters, so I can handle that.

“But a to lot of them I've had to say: ‘I'm in the process of setting up my team. You'll be at the top of the list as soon as it gets through'.

“So, it's a bit disappointing that I can't act, but I don't have a government e-mail, I don't have access to any of that information at the minute. So, it is a bit daunting at the moment.”

Mr Stone travelled to London on Monday to be inducted, meet with the parliamentary bodies who oversee office and staffing costs, and also the Labour party whips, who will be allocating offices.

He said that he and Heidi Alexander, the new Labour MP for Swindon South had put in to share an office.

He added: “She'll probably get a good office and that's useful for me. So fingers crossed on that one."

And in thinking about what his work entails, Mr Stone has thought about what he wants to be able to say he’s achieved at the end of his term in parliament in four or five years’ time.

He said: “I'm not expecting to have completed the whole list in five years. Some of them, like increasing access to higher education, which I’ve been talking about for a long time, will probably take 10 years, but I want to be able to show tangible progress.

“My number one priority is education. I've set up Smart Swindon, which is  working towards increasing access to education and I want to form a university hub, eventually.

“We have existing universities in the town, I want to bring them together and I want to form a hub which ties into local businesses so we can support the needs of the community.

“the other thing which was the first or second thing I said when I was selected to stand in Swindon was bringing green technology jobs here.

“We already have some fantastic companies I've been out to visit Oxwash already. They are an outstanding emerging tech company.

“I'm going to be supporting them to help them deliver. You know, we've got other biotech companies in South Marston, so like ABSL and there is some fantastic stuff on the cards.

“I want to be helping to develop. I want to be bringing in green tech. I’m hoping to set up a meeting with Pannatoni to see how we can get the best quality jobs available in that space.”

Just before the election was announced, Mr Stone, as a borough councillor, was about to launch a campaign on reform of housing management companies, and the charges they impose upon leaseholders in blocks of flats and the like.

He said: “This is something I'm incredibly passionate about and I'm going to be looking to push forward. It has to be looking towards reforms, management companies, leaseholds and ‘fleeceholds’. We have we have to regulate that market.”

Helping to get a newly rebuilt Oasis leisure centre opened as soon as possible is another priority for the new MP.

When asked what powers he will have as a backbench MP, especially on matters of private enterprise, or the responsibility of the council Mr Stone said: “Some doors opened when I got elected as a parish councillor,  other doors opened when I got elected as a borough councillor.

"More doors are opening for me now and there are businesses that want to invest in Swindon. There are people that want to invest in Swindon and I want to champion Swindon.

“I have always said my only interest is to be a good constituency MP. I’m not looking for high office, or any of that.

“I want to make Swindon the best possible town  for children to grow  up in and people to grow old in.”