FROM parading around parliament to bumping into Boris — Bolton’s new MP has discussed his “overwhelming” first few days in the job.

Conservative Chris Green was voted in as the new MP for Bolton West last week, unseating Labour incumbent Julie Hilling by 801 votes on a dramatic night.

The 41-year-old, who has now left his job as an engineer, has been in Westminster this week, being given a whistle-stop tour of everything needed to start life as an MP, from choosing staff to the all-important dealing with the press.

Mr Green, who previously stood as an MP in Manchester Withington in 2010, said: “The whole experience so far has been quite curious, I had a meeting in Portcullis House and was then taken through a tunnel before emerging in the Palace of Westminster — it was just amazing to be there as an MP rather than as a visitor.”

Mr Green joined his fellow newly elected Tory MPs for a meeting and picture opportunity with Prime Minister David Cameron — a meeting which included a certain Mayor of London.

He said: “As I was heading in for that meeting, Boris Johnson had just got off his bike and was coming through the door at the same time as me with his helmet on — that was very surreal.”

The new MP said the moment he realised he had arrived in the job was during a meeting of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs.

He added: “It was essentially a meeting of every Tory MP and that made it all feel real — there was such a hubbub of noise and activity.”

Mr Green will be returning to Bolton to officially start work as an Member of Parliament on Thursday and is looking at setting up a constituency office in either Horwich or his home town of Westhoughton.

He will then go about the key tasks of selecting staff members and setting up an IT system to cope with the large amount of case work expected to arrive from local residents.

During his election campaign, Mr Green regularly cited improvements to the transport network in the area as a key area he will look at.

He said: “Transport is absolutely key for me and now I can take a look at the bigger picture of the constituency as a whole, I think there are a lot of improvements that we can make.

“I hope that being a Conservative MP with a Conservative majority government will help, but I will have to work locally with councillors from other parties to get the best for my constituents.”