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City Council's Electoral Services Manager
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/2
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Date : - 2015-4-9 (creation)
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Description : - As described by the depositor: On April 9th at the close of nominations we visited Vicky again, as she read out the six candidates who had put themselves forward to be the next MP for Cambridge. Vicky explained the process for registration. Vicky said that those nominated needed the support of ten people to be accepted onto the candidates list. She went on to explain how odd ball candidates get onto the list, how people can spoil their voting papers, and how both crosses on papers and ticks will be accepted and much more.
City Council staff after the close of voter registration
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/2/12
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Date : - 2015-4-21 (creation)
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Description : - Includes interview with Vicky Breading, City Council’ Electoral Services Manager, and her assistant, Emily Watts.
Churches Jubilee hustings
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/2/18
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Date : - 2015-4-29 (creation)
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Description : - An event aimed at Christians, involving a group of churches. Includes interviews with organiser Jonathan Tame, and his events manager.
Chloe Smith MP and Anna Beckingham, Trustee and co-founder, on the Keeping Abreast exhibition
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/22
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Date : - 2015-10-13 (creation)
Jo Cox MP - Another PMQs, but how do you get noticed?
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/26
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Date : - 2015-11-11 (creation)
Maria Miller MP - 2016 and Putting Equality First in the New Year
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/34
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Date : - 2015-12-21 (creation)
Heidi Allen MP and Dr Lisa Cameron MP: Abuse of MPs debate, Westminster Hall
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/74
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Date : - 2017-07-12 (creation)
Paula Sherriff MP Women and Equalities debate
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/73
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Date : - 2017-07-06 (creation)
Economist Vicky Pryce on the Trump Presidency
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/59
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Date : - 2016-11-25 (creation)
Heidi Allen MP - Speaking up for Child Refugees and for Women Against State Pension Age Rises
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/52
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Date : - 2016-10-14 (creation)
#IWD2018 interview with Alison McGovern MP as she talks about Harriet Harman MP and those all too male works of art in Westminster
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/13
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Date : - 2018-03-06 (creation)
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Description : - McGovern was just one year of age when Harman was elected to Parliament. McGovern talks about Harman's influence, all-women shortlists, having a nursery in the Houses of Parliament. Sones asks about how 'male' Parliament is, McGovern recognises that it will take time through the Committee.
Interview with Councillors Jerri Bird and Carla McQueen: Cambridge City Council Local Elections
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/27
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Date : - 2018-05-17 (creation)
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Description : - Bird is a Labour Cambridge City Councillor and helped McQueen win her seat in East Chesterton, McQueen was elected off an all-woman shortlist. Bird is former Mayor of Cambridge and as someone who is in a wheelchair has campaigned on disability issues alongside others. In 2019 she was Deputy Mayor of Cambridge. The interview took place when McQueen had popped over to Bird's house for a meeting on anti-social behaviour and dangerous driving when Sones spoke to both of them. Sones asks Bird about 'door-knocking', Bird says that while there are a few who do not like the experience, many people like talking to their local councillor. The pair discuss disability and Bird becoming Mayor of Cambridge as a disabled person. Sones talks to McQueen about the election night voting count and all-women shortlists. McQueen gives an account of her work in the face of being criticised for being on an all-women shortlist. Sones and Bird discuss special needs education and Bird's childhood, Bird sees it as a serious issue that needs tackling and that is not being tackled by the government. Sones asks both about what their meeting is about: dangerous driving and anti-social behaviour. McQueen talks about the importance of having a strong team around her, especially a team of women. Bird talks about the PIP process and living in Cambridge as a disabled person.
Interview with Councillor Bridget Smith on the May 2018 Local Elections
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/33
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Date : - 2018-06-12 (creation)
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Description : - The May 2018 local elections resulted in normally safe Conservative parliamentary seat of South Cambridgeshire becoming a Liberal Democrat controlled council with a healthy majority winning 30 of the 45 seats. There were boundary changes and a reduction in the number of seats from 57, the Conservatives were reduced to just 11 when they previously had 35. Some put the dramatic change down to the 2016 Referendum and Brexit, and the vote to leave the EU, in which 60% of South Cambridgeshire voters wanted to Remain. However, there were other factors at play, such as no proper local plan, controversial housing developments, transportation, the lack of face-to-face debt advice, and the need for more affordable housing. In this interview, Bridget smith, the new leader of South Cambridgeshire spoke to Sones about the victory, the issues on which the Liberal Democrats campaigned, the impact of Brexit, and the vulnerability of the seat now in any future General Election and their use of the 'Minivan' application which allowed them to know which houses they needed to call upon in each ward. Smith discusses the 'waterfall of yellow votes', but notes that 'putting it down to Brexit is far too simplistic. Smith and Sones discuss the other issues affecting Cambridge, having four years of no plan, no five year housing land supply and out of control speculative land development. Smith states that people are really upset by the effects of austerity.
Interview with Vicky Ford MP on #Abortion in Northern Ireland
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/32
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Date : - 2018-06-06 (creation)
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Description : - Ford speaks about her speech in the recent debate on reforming the abortion laws in Northern Ireland and amending the Offences Against the Persons Act 1861 proposed by the Labour politician Stella Creasy. The debate was brought forward after a referendum in Southern Ireland [Ireland] where the vote was in support of abortion reform leaving Northern Ireland out of step with the rest of the UK. Ford talked to Sones before Supreme Court ruled whether or not the UK in contravention of the Human Rights Act on this.
@Vote100 Voice and Vote Exhibition, Westminster Hall: Women's Place in Parliament
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/35
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Date : - 2018-06-27 (creation)
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Description : - Interview with Maria Miller MP, the Chair of the Equalities Select Committee provides her own tour of the new Voice and Vote exhibition. The exhibition takes visitors through the historic moments of women's suffrage and their struggle for the vote.
Interview with Catherine McKinnell MP: Carillion and apprenticeships and childcare vouchers
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/5
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Date : - 2018-01-17 (creation)
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Description : - McKinnell is the Labour MP for Newcastle North, her debate followed a petition that asked the government to think again before making the changes to phasing out vouchers which will cause hardship for some. McKinnell also asked Prime Minster Theresa May about what will happen to apprenticeships now that the construction company Carillion has gone bust. McKinnell is the co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Apprenticeships, McKinnell discusses tax free child care and formulating a fairer system and working against the government's decision to block new voucher applications, even though the vouchers scheme helps those worse off.
Interview with Maria Miller MP: Cox Report and Harassment in Parliament
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/50
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Date : - 2018-10-17 (creation)
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Description : - Miller, Conservative MP for Basingstoke chairs the Women and Equalities Select Committee and used a debate (16 October) to discuss the Dame Laura Cox report on harassment and bullying in Parliament to call for Speaker John Bercow to resign. Miller was disappointed with the number of MPs in the debate and that it was obvious Bercow should step down.
Interview with Anne Marie Trevelyan MP: why when you are an MP, Country has to be the first battle to fight
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/58
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Date : - 2018-12-11 (creation)
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Description : - 'Brexiteer' Anne Marie Trevelyan and Conservative MP for Berwick Upon Tweed represents a fishing constituency that voted to Leave the EU in the 2016 Referendum. Trevelyan resigned her junior ministerial position in the Department of Education. Trevelyan was disappointed with Theresa May's decision to delay the Brexit vote. Speaking about her decision to resign from the government she said that after reading the agreement she felt she had little choice and that as an MP your loyalty is to your Constituency.
UK Parliament Week: Why you need to persevere in politics
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/54
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Date : - 2018-11-14 (creation)
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Description : - Dame Caroline Spelman, the Conservative MP for Meriden and former Secretary of State for the Environment in David Cameron's 2010 government, hosted an event in Westminster to explore ways of encouraging more women to enter the Church.
#IWD2019 Rachel Reeves MP "Women of Westminster - The MPs who Changed Politics"
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/68/4
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Date : - 2019-03-07 (creation)
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Description : - In an interview with Jackie Ashley, Reeves spoke about writing her first book 'Alice in Westminster - the life of Alice Bacon', who won her Leeds North East seat, the first woman to do so, in the 1945 General Election. Reeves is an economist and has served Leeds West since 2010, she was made Shadow Secretary for Work and Pensions in 2013 but did not return to the role post-maternity leave. She tells Ashley that 'it is a bit of a club being in Westminster and women haven't always fitted in'. Reeves thinks that progress has been made - including having two-hundred-and-nine women in Westminster. Reeves still thinks progress needs to be made as Parliament is a long way from being 50:50. Reeves discusses the murder of Jo Cox, the targeting of black women and Jewish women like Diane Abbot and Luciana Berger. Reeves spoke about her favourite story of a female MP - Eleanor Rathbone an Independent MP who worked across the political spectrum who got the first family allowances paid directly to women.