- Thanks to AI, we can see what ministers may have looked like in younger years
Our Members of Parliament are among the most recognisable faces in Britain.
But, with the help of AI technology, we can get a glimpse into what they may have previously looked like before they entered office.
Thanks to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the ministers from the department can be seen as the younger versions of themselves, leaving people on X, formerly known as Twitter, involved in a guessing game of whose who.
So can you guess which AI generated image matches up with which minister?


Michelle Donelan
This would-be throw back image shows a striking similarity to Michelle Donelan, the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology.
The 39-year-old was appointed to the role in February of this year.
A Conservative MP for Chippenham in Wiltshire since 2015, the 39-year-old was selected as the Parliamentary Candidate by the Conservative Party for the new Melksham and Devizes constituency in May 2023.
Prior to her current role, she held three cabinet positions under former Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss as Secretary of State for Education, Minister of State for Higher and Further Education and Minister for Universities at the Department for Education.
She was also previously Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) from July 2019 to February 2020, when she moved into the unpaid Parliamentary Under Secretary of State role in the Department of Education to cover Kemi Badenoch during her maternity leave.


Paul Scully
This AI generated image is the would-be past picture of none other than MP Paul Scully.
The Conservative MP for Sutton and Cheam since May 2015, Mr Scully serves as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
He was appointed in February of this year.
He is also Minister for London as of February 2020.
Earlier this year, he put his name forward to take on Sadiq Khan on behalf of the Tories in next year’s London mayoral race but failed to make the shortlist.


George Freeman
The fresh-faced man can only be likened to the Minister of State in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, George Freeman.
Mr Freeman has been the serving Conservative MP in Mid Norfolk since 2010 and previously served as Parliamentary under-secretary of State for Science, Research and Innovation until he resigned in July 2022.
He also previously served in other departments including the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department of Transport.
The son of jockey and winner of the 1958 Grand National, Arthur Freeman, he had a 15-year career across the life sciences sector, working with hospitals, clinical researchers, patient groups and biomedical research companies before entering politics.
Among his ancestors, he counts 19th-century Prime Minister William Gladstone, who was his great-great-great-uncle.
The Liberal Prime Minister served as leader for 12 years, spread over four non-consecutive terms, from 1868 to 1894.


Jonathan Berry, 5th Viscount Camrose
This AI-generated image shows a youthful looking Jonathan Berry, 5th Viscount Camrose, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
A hereditary peer, the Viscount serves as Minister for AI and Intellectual Property. He was the second hereditary peer to be appointed to office by current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
The 53-year-old succeeded to the viscountcy upon the death of his father, Adrian Berry, in 2016.


Sir John Whittingdale
They may look worlds apart now, but this image shows us what Sir John Whittingdale may have looked like many years ago.
The MP for Maldon was appointed Minister of State jointly in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in 9 May 2023 while Julia Lopez is on maternity leave.
He was previously a Minister of State for Media and Data in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from May 2015 until 14 July 2016.
An MP since 1992, he came to be known in his capacity as Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, which investigated libel and privacy issues in 2009 and 2010 centred on the News International phone hacking scandal.
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