Carol Vorderman proposes in her new book that MPs should perform garbage collection as a “national service”

In her new book, Now What?: On a Mission to Fix Broken Britain, out September 12, Vorderman proposes garbage policing as part of her plan for change.

She writes: “After the Tory party proposed in its final days that 18-year-olds should do military service, we should take that idea and apply it to MPs of all parties.

“They could do their own form of national service to understand how our country actually works at all levels, rather than simply parachuting straight into the comfortable and subsidised world of Westminster.”

She further proposed that all MPs – with the exception of Cabinet ministers – should spend three days a month as interns in a range of different roles during the first year of each legislature.

Suggested occupations include working as a hospital porter, railway guard, teaching assistant, working in a factory, serving in the armed forces, working in social care, working in a food bank, working in a nursing home, working in a garbage can, working in road construction and working in the police force.