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Brunswick and North Kite, Residents Association; U3A hustings
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/2/15
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Date : - 2015-4-27 (creation)
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Description : - Includes interviews with Daniel Zeichner, labour candidate, at the U3A (University of the 3rd Age) hustings; and Sue Gordon- Roe, a postal voter who had helped organise the Brunswick and North Kite, Residents Association hustings.
Buddhist, Green Party hustings
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/2/9
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Date : - 2015-4-15 (creation)
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Description : - Includes interviews with Green Party leader Natalie Bennett at Green Party Hustings, and P. Joseph, organiser of a Buddhist hustings on the same day.
Fiona Mactaggart MP - How lunch and a chat can pave the way for change: The work of the WPLP
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/16
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Date : - 2015-07-16 (creation)
Ann Treneman, sketch writer for The Times, on the new House of Commons
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/15
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Date : - 2015-06-27 (creation)
Vera Baird QC and PCC Northumbria - Saving Domestic Violence Refuges from closure
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/51
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Date : - 2016-09-09 (creation)
Helen Jones MP - The Labour Opposition Day Debate and the WASPI Women
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/37
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Date : - 2016-02-25 (creation)
Baroness Shirley Williams - The Europe Referendum June 23rd 2016
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/42
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Date : - 2016-05-25 (creation)
Caroline Flint MP launches a Charter to help the children of alcoholics
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/61
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Date : - 2017-02-22 (creation)
Gisela Stuart on her 20 year political career in Parliament and as Chair of Vote Leave
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/69
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Date : - 2017-05-24 (creation)
Historian and author Elizabeth Crawford on Millicent Fawcett and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/82
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Date : - 2017-10-06 (creation)
Lucy Allan MP: The last PMQs before the Summer Recess and a question about CSE
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/76
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Date : - 2017-07-19 (creation)
Layla Moran MP and Paula Sheriff MP - Period Poverty Debate Westminster Hall
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/93
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Date : - 2017-11-29 (creation)
Interview with constituents after Heidi Allen, MP for South Cambridgeshire holds a public meeting - Do Voters like TIGs?
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/68/7
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Date : - 2019-03-16 (creation)
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Description : - Sones interviews David, Rebecca, Bruce, Vivienne and Emma as they attended a public meeting in Cambridge to hear from Allen discuss why she decided to leave the Conservatives to join the new Independent Group of MPs. Four support her and one is not sure about any of the political parties. Nearly 150 people attended the meeting, with the majority in favour of Allen's decision.
Margaret Moran MP on domestic violence
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Reference Code : - SOBA 6/3/9
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Description : - From the 'Head to Heads' section
Maria Miller MP Chair of the Equalities Select Committee on the work of her committee in 2017; Dame Caroline Spelman MP speaking up for Tearfund and the World’s Poor; Heidi Allen MP on helping the victims of Modern Day Slavery get more help in 2017
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/2/9
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Date : - 2017-01-07 (creation)
Conservative PPC Campaign Manager, Mr Chandila Fernando
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/16
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Date : - 2015-4-28 (creation)
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Description : - Mr Chandila Fernando, brother of the candidate, interviewed at the Churches Jubilee hustings. As described by the depositor: He said: “I think this is the 27th Hustings, there are sometimes two or three in a day. As an agent, you have to ensure your candidate is safe, well rested, and gets around the Constituency in the most effective way, but there is a diary plan for every day. “As an agent you are everything from pot washer, to driver to stylist, advisor, and you have to have your eyes and ears to the ground, you act as the interface between the candidate and the association, which ceases to exist. You have to keep the troops out canvassing motivated, you are juggling telephone calls, priorities and being as polite as you possible can even if the circumstances are trying. She is my sister and you do the best you possibly can. “You have to deal with the media too. The report that said Chamali had said that the mental illness sufferers must have compulsory use of wrist band is completely refuted. We envisaged that there would be difficult circumstances but only when you are in a campaign can you understand the challenges, the volume of hustings and frequency has been a challenge. It is tough but that is part of the democracy of this Country and part of the quirks of Cambridge. I admire and am very proud as a brother and agent to support my sister.”
Campaign Manager for the Liberal Democrats in South East Cambridgeshire, Kevin Wilkins, and his team
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/22
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Date : - 2015-4-28 (creation)
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Description : - Interviewed in their Ely office. As described by the depositor: Kevin told us: “Lots of electoral law is quite archaic, you need ten names to nominate you and lots and lots of forms to fill in. If you get some of those wrong then your candidate isn’t a candidate. Envelopes are written by hand to make it look as personalised as possible, we have sent out 15,000 this week. It gets done at a rate of about 80 an hour. We have grown up knowing that we don’t have the national press shouting for us, so we know we have got to get the message out locally. That means delivering lots of leaflets and knocking on lots of doors. A great disappointment of the coalition is that there hasn’t been a standardisation of letter boxes Act (he joked). Our office opens from 10 am to 10pm and as we get nearer to the election it will go on later than that. “There is a spending limit on the campaign of about £15000 so it clearly matters that you can raise that amount of money, but at least it is £15000 not £150000. “ David Wright, who runs the LD Printing Society said: “I first did this in 1974, and I am a volunteer, I don’t charge for my time. The most recent mistake I made was to print one side of the leaflet upside down. Once a typesetter left the word “not” out so it read “we will make the same mistake as the Labour party.” Loran a party organiser and agent, said that she spent time at her computer organising things: “A lot of our material is going to focus on the need for affordable housing. We work at weekends, we have meetings every Sunday evening.” Sheila the poster putter up with David her husband said: “This is a very exciting election – I am terrified if I am holding the post and my husband is doing the hammering. I think does he love me or not?”
Hustings: part four
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/29
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Date : - 2015-5-2 (creation)
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Description : - Covers the Cambridge University European Society hustings, and discussion of the King’s College hustings, held on April 30th with discussion on May 6th. As described by the depositor: Anna, the Outreach Officer of the Society told us: “I am German and I can see that the European issues are not being tackled enough in this Election debate. The Conservatives have said they might leave the EU so it should be talked about more. UKIP are not here tonight, they were invited.” Matteo Mirolo, Vice President said: “I am French and Italian. I think we shouldn’t amalgamate everything and create fear about immigration. These people are war refugees, I respect everyone’s opinion so long as there isn’t any amalgamation of the fear and the issues.” Sophie a young woman student in the audience said: “I wanted to see the candidates in the flesh. I am quite interested in their response to the UKIP stuff and the Europe question. Yes their answers will influence me I am quite undecided as to how to vote at the moment.” Guy an older member of the audience said: “In 66 years I have never been to a hustings. I Googled it at the last minute, found a website that listed all the hustings and this was the last one. I am decided on my vote but definitely think we should be in Europe and I won’t be voting UKIP.” Eleni Courea told us:” I took the questions, there were a huge variety of questions from students from nuclear power to the NHS and this government’s record on it. The students were most passionate talking about the Living Wage and the bedroom tax. “Tuition fees was not one of the major focuses of the event. The most heated debate was over the bedroom tax, and we asked Julian why he voted for it and he had to defend it. That was the most divisive issue. People had checked his voting record on the Huppert Check website which showed he had voted with the IDS reforms to Welfare over 90 per cent of the time. “I personally ensured that it was Chaired impartially. Julian stayed around with students to talk to us afterwards. It was a heated hustings. They are crucial events, people can see, hear and talk to their candidates, and they are good for democracy. “
Caroline Lucas MP - PMQs gets a Jeremy Corbyn makeover but what lies ahead on the Reform agenda in Parliament?
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/18
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Date : - 2015-09-21 (creation)
Heidi Allen MP on her experience as a new MP
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/19
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Date : - 2015-09-21 (creation)
Joan Walley MP, Cutting greenhouse gases and monitoring our environmental targets in 2015
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/2
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Date : - 2015-02-11 (creation)
Helen Goodman MP on new Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/20
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Date : - 2015-09-21 (creation)