NO10 TO LOVE ISLAND New Love Island contestant Zara McDermott is a Government adviser – so now her housemates have no excuse not to know about Brexit

THE LOVE Island contestants will have no excuse for not knowing about Brexit as new arrival Zara McDermott is a Government policy adviser.

The glamorous 21-year-old has entered the villa as Hayley Hughes – who left viewers gobsmacked when she revealed she had never heard of Brexit – was part of the first couple to leave Hidden Hills on Friday.rexit on the show
Zara, a former model, spent two years at the Department for Energy and Climate Change, drafting policy ideas, answering written questions from MPs, and writing briefing notes for ministers.

She then moved to the Department for Education in November last year, where she works as a policy advisor to the Cabinet minister Damian Hinds.

In a clip as she got ready to enter the show the civil servant, who studied psychology, English literature, religious studies and media at A level, boasted: “I've definitely got the brains.”

It is a far cry from Hayley, who looked utterly baffled when fellow contestant Georgia decided to bring up the topic as the women sat around the pool