It's been an incredible few weeks. At the start of last month, I was surrounded by papers in my constituency office, talking to voters ahead of the general election.
Today, I'm still surrounded by papers, but in a new office at the Department for Education, with the amazing privilege of now being the minister for children and families.
In many ways, the jobs of an MP and a minister are defined as much by their similarities as their differences. To a large extent, the issues I have got so used to campaigning for over the past seven years, as an MP in one of the country's most diverse constituencies, are much the same as the ones I now face in government.
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