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A Belfast beauty Queen is set to fight a by-election in a bid to "glamorise" the House of Commons.

Gemma Garrett, who is the current Miss Great Britain, is standing in the safe Labour seat of Crewe and Nantwich.

The by-election was triggered by the death of Gwyneth Dunwoody - the longest serving female MP - aged 77.

Ms Garrett, 26, will represent the newly formed Beauties for Britain party, which is striving to inject a bit of European glitz into Parliament.

She launched her election bid at Westminster's College Green on Monday.

Ms Garrett has pledged to "help make Westminster as glamorous a place as its fellow European legislatures, where beautiful women abound in the higher echelons of government".

The Northern Ireland model also vowed to be a political sleaze-fighter, campaign for transparency and accountability and "make Britain feel beautiful again".

"I may not know a lot about politics yet but I do know about people and how everyone would prefer that Britain looks and feels beautiful instead of dwelling on the ugly and negative side of life and politics," she said.