County Durham MP Dehenna Davison has got herself involved in a joke about a newly elected MP that was referred to as looking like a character from TV show The Inbetweeners.

Tweeting out yesterday (July 21), the Bishop Auckland MP, who won't stand at the next general election, said "Can confirm I’m not an Inbetweener," before adding in another tweet: "(I always preferred Skins anyway!)".

While Ms Davison's comment section on her Twitter was full of divided posts, a few eyebrows were raised about the reference made from the MP.

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However, others knew exactly what she was referring to.

Earlier this week, Tory minister Johnny Mercer compared new 25-year-old Labour MP Keir Mather, who won the Selby and Ainsty seat on Friday, to a character from cult Channel 4 comedy The Inbetweeners.

The minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Conservative said Mr Mather had been “dropped into” the Selby and Ainsty constituency and “spouted identikit Keir Starmer lines”, after earlier stating: “We don’t want parliament to become like the Inbetweeners.”

Mr Mather will become the youngest MP in the Commons – the Baby of the House – after overturning a 20,137 Conservative majority to win the north Yorkshire seat for Labour.

The Inbetweeners, which aired in the late 2000s, follows four friends at school who end up in awkward and embarrassing situations as they try to enter adulthood.

Explaining his comments to Sky News on Friday, Mr Mercer said: “I think this synthetic outrage, identikit Labour politician is the opposite of what people like me came into politics for.

The Northern Echo: Dehenna DavisonDehenna Davison (Image: PA MEDIA)

“He’s been at Oxford University more than he’s has a job, right? So if you can really apply that to the empathy required to understand what it’s really like in this country at the moment, in terms of the cost of living and all these experiences of these people he’s trying to represent.

“Personally, I don’t think that is conducive to good electoral representation and I’m more than entitled to have that view.”

The Northern Echo: The InbetweenersThe Inbetweeners (Image: NORTHERN ECHO)

Despite Mr Mercer's comments, Labour peer Baroness Chapman of Darlington, who appeared alongside Mr Mercer on Sky, defended Mr Mather as “very considered” and “intelligent” and said: “You’re entitled to have whatever view you like, but there is such a thing as being gracious in defeat Johnny, and you’re being disrespectful to the voters of Selby who’ve made a decision that you don’t happen to like.

“One of the good things about our Parliament is that we have people entering Parliament for the first times in their twenties but also in their sixties, from all kinds of backgrounds, and I think that’s a strength.”