The Labour leadership may be dominating the headlines but one MP is vowing to put that all aside for the time being as he prepares to walk up the aisle.

Bradford West MP Marsha Singh will wed his sweetheart, Kuldit Mann, after an 11-month whirlwind romance.

The couple, who have known each other for years but lost touch, were reunited last summer when Miss Mann contacted Mr Singh to ask whether her teenage son, Suki, could do work experience in his Westminster office.

Mr Singh, of Fairweather Green, Bradford, said: "I am slightly nervous but really looking forward to it. It is easier to organise things for other people. It will be a fairly low key wedding as you have family sensitivities to take into account.

"Our romance just blossomed when we met up again and we are looking forward to the day."

Ms Mann, who works at Ealing Council in London as the manager of private sector housing, has two children, 16-year-old son Suki and 12-year-old daughter Serena.

Mr Singh has a daughter Hardev, 33, son Ravinder, 30, and granddaughters Keerat, six, Maya, three and two-year-old Samrya.

Mr Singh described his future wife as "beautiful, intelligent, with a lovely personality" but said they would not have a nine-to-five marriage and accepted the difficulties a newly married MP would face.

He added: "I still have my commitments to my constituents and will continue to live in Bradford but we will work through it. You do when you fall in love with somebody. She will continue living in London and I in Bradford when I am not in Westminster - I think we will mainly see each other when I have finished my constituency work."

The couple will marry at a register office in London followed by a meal with family and close friends before leaving the hype of Labour's annual conference, which starts the following day, and jetting off to a surprise honeymoon destination.

Mr Singh's first wife, Sital Kaur, died of cancer in 2001 at the age of 50.

Mr Singh, 51, was holding her hand at her bedside at Bradford Royal Infirmary when she died.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer and received treatment at Cookeridge Hospital, Leeds, but the disease spread.