Dynasty

Caroline Dinenage MP, newly arrived as Minister of State, at the DCMS, probably knows more about telly than her new boss, Oliver Dowden.

Caroline's dad is ITV legend Fred, still presenting Meridian News for the south-east of England at 77.  Caroline (Wykeham House School, Oaklands Comprehensive and Swansea University) started in politics on Winchester Council in 1998.  She married Naval Officer Carlos Garreta in 2002, and they had two children. She contested, unsuccessfully, Portsmouth South in 2005, and was finally elected for Gosport in 2010.

In 2014 she married Mark Lancaster, the MP for Milton Keynes, who stood down last year. They live together in Gosport.