MPs have swooped back into Parliament today after a brutal and exhausting election campaign.
More than 100 fresh-faced new Tories are among those coming to Parliament for the first time thanks to Boris Johnson's resounding victory.
Many have long and storied careers ahead of them.
But some of them have a few skeletons in their past too.
We've looked at some of the new MPs who landed themselves in controversy before they even arrived in their new offices in Westminster.
Brendan Clarke-Smith
The Tory who ousted Labour in Bassetlaw told a hustings food banks were being used too often as a "top up" and a "political weapon".
Explaining the huge rise in foodbanks he said: "If you keep saying to people that you’re going to give stuff away, then you’re going to have an increase I’m afraid."
He said food banks should only be a short-term solution and it was "simply not true" that Britain is "some kind of country in crisis and in absolute poverty".
He later told the Mirror the reaction to his comments was "staged outrage". He added: "I stand by the fact it's been weaponised. I don't obviously believe that everybody who uses a food bank is just taking advantage, I think that's actually very rare."
Ian Levy
The Tory who took Blyth Valley, Labour since 1950, was accused of misleading the public after a Facebook post that described him as an NHS nurse was quietly edited.
The post dated November 9 originally said: "As an NHS nurse myself, I am immensely proud of the investment by our Conservative government."
This post was edited 10 days later to describe him as an "NHS mental health nursing assistant".
A local NHS worker told the Mirror that despite sounding similar, the two roles were "very different" and colleagues were "angry that he would lie about being a nurse to win votes".
Mr Levy did not return requests for comment.
Karl McCartney
The MP who seized Lincoln back from Labour apologised during the campaign for retweeting a post claiming Tommy Robinson had been imprisoned for 'reporting on Muslim paedophiles'.
Mr McCartney also shared a letter from Tommy Robinson with his followers in which the extreme right-winger claimed his murder by Islamic prison gangs would spark a revolution
It read: “I’ve always said I’d sacrifice my life tomorrow if it would end the Islamic takeover of our beautiful land.”
Nick Lowles, chief executive of HOPE not Hate, said the activity showed he was "utterly unfit to be an MP".
In a statement, Mr McCartney said: "I apologise unreservedly. In no way do I endorse the tweets or the accounts behind them. I accept retweeting them was ill judged and could cause offence.
"This divisive figure [Mr Robinson] has no place in our politics or public life."
Anthony Browne
Anthony Browne, an ex-aide to Boris Johnson , blamed migrants for bringing germs to UK and for the spread of HIV.
Labour called on Tories to boot out Mr Browne after the articles were unearthed by The Guardian .
Writing for the Spectator, he said: “It is not through letting in terrorists that the government's policy of mass migration – especially from the third world – will claim the most lives. It is through letting in too many germs.”
Mr Browne, who worked for the PM when he was Mayor of London, has apologised for the comments in the past.
Speaking when appointed Mr Johnson's policy chief at City Hall he said: “I do very much regret any offence caused by any past newspaper articles. It really never was my intention to cause offence but to provoke debate.
"The articles, which I deeply regret writing, also don’t give a fair reflection of my views. I want to make clear that I am emphatically not anti-immigration.”
During the campaign, a Conservative party spokesperson said: “These comments were made over 15 years ago, Anthony Browne has apologised for these comments and sincerely regrets them.”
Lee Anderson
Tory Lee Anderson said "nuisance" council house tenants should live in tents and work in fields
In a shocking video rant on Facebook, the Tory MP for Ashfield said he thinks they should be plucked from their homes and made to pick potatoes for 12 hours a day.
During the campaign, he was caught getting his friend to act as a 'swing voter' in another disinformation scandal to hit the Conservative party.
In the video posted during the campaign, he said: "These people who have to live somewhere, let's have them in a tent, in the middle of a field.
"Six o'clock every morning, let's have them up, let's have them in the field, picking potatoes or any other seasonal vegetables, back in the tent, cold shower, lights out, six o'clock, same again the next day. That would be my solution."
Mr Anderson took the constituency of Ashfield in Nottinghamshire from Labour with 19,231 votes.
Sally-Ann Hart
Sally-Ann Hart sparked outrage when she appeared to suggest people with learning difficulties could work for less than the minimum wage.
Ms Hart's opinion, which comes from a piece she wrote for the Spectator in 2017, was branded "outdated" and "inexcusable" by disability campaigners,
The Tory, who replaced Amber Rudd Hastings and Rye, is also facing two-party investigations over alleged Islamophobia and anti-Semitism - but Prime Minister Boris Johnson opted not to suspend her.
Ms Hart insists her comments on the disabled were taken "out of context".
James Taylor of disability equality charity Scope said: “These opinions are outdated, inexcusable, and should be consigned to history.
“Disabled people should be paid equally for the work that they do."
