COULD we be looking at a Hove MP of the future?

Oliver Newnam hopes so. The 18-year-old picked up an A in economics, A* in government and politics and an A in law and is heading to Cambridge to study politics and international relations.

He said: "I would like to be the Hove MP for Labour at some point.

"I never used to be into politics but at Bhasvic I decided I wanted to get involved and change the way the establishment was run."

He cited current Hove MP Peter Kyle as a good role model.

Oliver, who lives in Hove and went to Blatchington Mill School, was not sure we would get the grades he needed.

He said: "I thought I had fluked my GCSEs and that I wasn't actually that clever, that I had winged it.

"Because I needed an A* to go, I didn't think I was going to get the grades."

If he did not get elected as an MP, he could still see himself in politics as an advisor.