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Julian Huppert – Liberal Democrat general election candidate
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/13
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Date : - 2015-4-4-2015-4-20 (creation)
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Description : - Interviewed at the April 4th 'Unite Against Fascism' picnic, and April 20th 'Unite Against Fascism' hustings. As described by the depositor: First we spoke to Julian at the Unite Against Fascism picnic on April 4th where all the parties came together to condemn a recent racist attack in Petersfield Park. We then spoke with Councillor Oscar Gillespie who was up for nomination in Market Ward as a councillor for the Green Party and who did then win his seat. We also met the woman who had been the subject of the racist abuse. Julian said: “I am a Liberal I care about people as individuals but unfortunately what we are seeing with the rise of UKIP is anti-foreigners xenophobic commentary. The other parties Labour and the Conservatives are following that same route. I will stand firm as a Liberal.” At the April 20th unite Against Fascism Hustings, Julian pointed out that Cambridge had seen two EDL (English Defence League) marches in recent years and he said that the community has dealt with it very well. He said: “We have seen people assaulted because of their race, and that is not OK.” A Green Party Candidate for Petersfield in the local elections, Atus Mariqueo-Russell, spoke alongside Julian. He said he wanted to challenge the other candidates on foreign policy and immigration. “The debate has become very dangerous and polarising.” Both Julian and Atus Tweeted about the event but Julian never Tweets until he has arrived somewhere, just in case he doesn’t make it.
Student voters and Green party activist
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/37
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Date : - 2015-5-7 (creation)
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Description : - Various interviews at Newnham. As described by the depositor: The Student voters: Later we travelled across the City to Newnham where Robinson College University of Cambridge students Richard and Amy were queuing to vote and refused to give their polling number to the Tellers. We asked them to self-narrate the scene as they moved slowly down the queue of 50 or more so that historians of the future could picture it. The student vote is said to have won the seat for Labour from the Liberal Democrat’s by just 599 votes. Richard said: “The queue is surprisingly long, longer than what I expected, about 50 and a lot of them at this time of day, midday are students. I applied to vote and chose to vote here rather than back home as this is a marginal and my vote will make more of a difference. A lot of these people couldn’t vote in 2010, the tuition fee hike gets people interested. Because the polls are predicting a tie between Labour and Conservative you feel you need to come out here and do something about it. The election will be to the wire even after the results are announced because we don’t know what is going to happen. I looked things up online as well and got emails and letters from the candidates Julian and Daniel, in an attempt to engage us – things are moving onto the internet, the Green Party is good on Facebook. I decided how to vote two weeks ago”. Amy said: “The Scottish Referendum and talk of an EU Referendum makes people more interested in politics now. I have been on the internet and watched some of the parody videos that mock the system. There are quite a lot of quizzes around that are very unreliable that tell you what you are supposed to be voting for. I decided how to vote yesterday, there is a lot of scare mongering and policies not set in stone that I don’t trust yet.” One Green Activist Ruth Lambert from Newnham had literally “plastered” the front of her house with posters: Ruth said: “I think we are on the cusp of a Whoosh!” “I think we are not looking at a future as we were before, there is going to be a surge in greens, humanity and people centred policies rather than power centred policies. We need to rebuild community and that is the point of this window.”
Daniel Zeichner – Labour Party PPC general election candidate
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/12
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Date : - 2015-2-25-2015-5-4 (creation)
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Description : - Interviewed Feb 25th on Labour’s 'Pink Bus'; April 12th, Super Sunday leafleting; April 27th at the U3A hustings at the Friends Meeting House; and May 4th Bank Holiday Monday at the Labour Party HQ in Norfolk Street, telephone canvassing. As described by the depositor: At the Harriet Harman Pink Bus visit Daniel told us: “I think it is a fantastic idea, for the first time I can remember women’s issues are at the front of the campaign. Here we are talking about domestic violence, and how we are trying to turn Cambridge into a much safer city, particularly for women. The police will tell you the incidence of DV in Cambridge, has shot up and I am pleased Harriet is here talking to women about what needs to be done to help them, this is a hidden crisis that is going on in many homes. At the U3A Friends Meeting House Hustings Daniel said: “The problem with the Hustings in Cambridge is that we have a huge number of them, two a day today, and it needed some leadership from the incumbent MP to structure this differently. We discussed education, poverty, but not zero hour’s contracts, We could have had fewer hustings events with larger audiences and I think this would have taken us further.” At the Labour HQ on Bank Holiday Monday Daniel was telephone canvassing. He said: “We want our volunteers to get the vote out, in close campaigns and with some many people so undecided, these last minute conversations could be critically important. It does matter to phone canvass people, we have an enthusiasm on the ground, and this time we are seeing hundreds of students getting involved. That gives you more people you can use in key moments, like that four hours on election day when people come home from work, between four and 8 O’clock. “I mainly do door knocking, people like to look the candidate in the eye, I will flirt with the cat, flirt with the dog, flirt with the voter if necessary, it is all about the theatre of politics, but politics is about a relationship with people, and they do like to know who their representative is. I have been contesting this seat now for nearly ten years, so I have met most of the people in one way or another and it is surprising how many of the conversations you do recollect, especially with the dogs!” At the 30th Hustings which was the last one for the University of Cambridge European Society at St John’s auditorium Daniel was delighted that the hustings events had finished: “It is not about the husting or the leafleting we have done, the votes will be won and lost with the thousands of conversations we have had on the doorstep. It is about the one to one looking people in the eye and talking to people. Ed asked us to have 4 million conversations across the Country, and in Cambridge we have had about 15 to 20000. I am feeling very happy and I don’t know how the vote will go!”
Labour Councillor and voters
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/38
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Date : - 2015-5-7 (creation)
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Description : - Interviews with Kevin Blencowe, Labour Councillor, and assorted voters. As described by the depositor: Alison again with friend Juliet: On the night of the count at 6pm we returned to find our St Matthew’s voter Alison Litherland with a friend, Juliet, in front of the telly waiting for the close of polls. Both had already voted. Alison said: ”Because I have spent time living around political people I realise the enormous amount of work that goes into running an election and all of it behind the scenes. Workers have to deliver leaflets and knock on doors and they suddenly come out and do an awful lot of work. They gather the lists of names and tick them off, they give a huge amount of time it is impressive.” Juliet said: “I read all the literature that came through my door, it was just a whim. I had left it all sitting there and then a couple of days ago I thought I would just read through it all. It took me about half an hour and about 20 leaflets in all. I was probably going to Vote Green but I read them all. It could have influenced me if there was something in there that had really grabbed me. I thought long and hard because it is a marginal here, and then I thought “No” because Labour and Lib Dem are ultimately the same and I won’t get the things I want like end of austerity and end of Trident.” Kevin Blinco, Labour supporter. Labour Party HQ, Alex Wood Hall, Norfolk Street We found Labour activist and councillor Kevin Blinco at 9 pm at night in the Alex Wood Hall in Norfolk Street still working and getting his “knocker up” list to go out and encourage other Labour supporters to vote. Kevin said: “The people we have identified as probable Labour voters and they haven’t voted - we try and dig them out, we either phone them or knock on the door and say you have another hour to vote. It was a very good start to the day, lots of people queuing up to vote and I think that the good weather helped. I am always hopeful.” Ann, another party worker had given Kevin the “knocker upper” list. She said: “We have been very busy, we are working away like mad, we are still phoning some of the area, but in others where there are elderly people living it is not appropriate. Kevin is taking the last batch of the knock ups. I won’t celebrate until I get the result, we are hoping for a good result!” Students: Rob, India, Eleanor and Raff: We then at 9.20 pm captured the very last Hustings of the campaign at the famous Cambridge Union Society where the Footlights team were engaging students in political satire and spoke to four students. These four first time voters, who had all cast their vote, collectively concluded: “Every student and everyone our age should be out there and voting.”
City Council’s Electoral Services Manager and a Presiding Officer
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/4
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Date : - 2015-4-22 (creation)
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Description : - As described by the depositor: At a training night for Presiding Officers on April 22nd we secured interviews with Vicky and a long serving Presiding Officer, Robert Osborn, who looks after East Chesterton. Robert also delivers poll cards. Polling booths open at 7 am and close at 10 pm. Robert told us that the Polling agents from the parties are allowed to witness the sealing of the ballot boxes before they are put in the booths. At the end of the day the papers are taken back to the Guildhall where the count is taking place.
Acting Returning Officer and CEO of the City Council
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/9
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Date : - 2015-5-7 (creation)
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Description : - As described by the depositor: On the night of the count we interviewed Antoinette Jackson, the Acting Returning Officer and CEO of the City Council just before the vote was declared in the early hours of the next morning May 8th:“The first ballot box was back at about 10.15 pm and the last one about 11.15 pm. I am responsible for the safe conduct of the count. I have to make sure that we are counting accurately and that the secrecy of the ballot is maintained and that the journalists are acting appropriately and not revealing things they shouldn’t be. It feels like one team working to make sure it is a successful count no matter what their role is.”
City Council staff and local journalist
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/2/23
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Date : - 2015-5-5 (creation)
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Description : - Includes interviews with Vicky Breading, City Council’ Electoral Services Manager; Ashley Perry, City Council’s Marketing and Press Officer; and Chris Elliott of local paper the Cambridge Evening News .
Anglia Ruskin hustings, and interview with Liberal Democrat Campaign Manager
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/2/17
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Date : - 2015-4-28 (creation)
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Description : - Student hustings at Anglia Ruskin University, including interviews with interviews with students; and an interview Kevin Wilkins Campaign Manager for the Liberal Democrats in South East Cambridgeshire, held in their Ely office.
Dr Therese Coffey MP – More women in Boardrooms - the "Nudge" approach to achieving change for women
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/17
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Date : - 2015-07-16 (creation)
Sophie Walker, leader of the Women's Equality Party at its launch
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/23
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Date : - 2015-10-21 (creation)
Baroness Anne Jenkin and Victoria Prentis MP - The Kids' Cookery School
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/27
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Date : - 2015-11-19 (creation)
Quentin Letts of the Daily Mail gives the thumbs down to the first International Men's Day Debate
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/28
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Date : - 2015-11-19 (creation)
Professor Simon Deakin - What Now for Equal Pay and Rights at Work following the LEAVE Vote on BREXIT?
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/48
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Date : - 2016-06-25 (creation)
Colleen Fletcher MP and Karin Smith MP on their Maiden Speeches
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/5
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Date : - 2015-05-26 (creation)
Jo Churchill MP, Baroness Anne Jenkin, Theresa Villiers MP and Dr Sarah Wollaston MP - Theresa May takes over as the UK's Second woman Prime Minister
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/49
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Date : - 2016-07-14 (creation)
Nicky Morgan MP, Maria Miller MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP and Natalie Bennett on the legacy of Millicent Fawcett
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/45
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Date : - 2016-06-08 (creation)
Chi Onwurah MP brings another #WASPI debate to Westminster Hall and votes against the Brexit Bill
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/60
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Date : - 2017-02-09 (creation)
Ann Treneman, formerly of The Times, on Donald Trump
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/56
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Date : - 2016-11-25 (creation)
Maria Caulfield MP on Brexit and the Rights of EU citizens’s
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/68
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Date : - 2017-03-15 (creation)
Mims Davies MP & Dawn Butler MP Women in Parliament Debate Westminster Hall
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/79
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Date : - 2017-09-13 (creation)
Chris Elmore MP Women Released from Prison Westminster Hall Debate
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/83
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Date : - 2017-10-16 (creation)
Maria Eagle MP presents a new Bill for the Tyred campaign
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/85
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Date : - 2017-11-01 (creation)
Harriet Harman MP #IWD2018
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/11
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Date : - 2018-03-06 (creation)
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Description : - The Mother of the House Harriet Harman MP delivered her 2018 International Women's Day speech to a specially convened House of Commons Works of Art Committee Audience in Westminster. Harman is introduced by Alison McGovern MP. Harman begins by thanking McGovern and paying tribute to other female MPs, as well as Helen Pankhurst. Harman discusses the relationship between men and women as she was growing up as a woman. Harman talks about feeling out of place and seeing the ranks of men in grey suits on the green benches, feeling that she did not belong, especially in a maternity dress. She talks about receiving letters women angry at her abandoning her children and Harman worried about the impact she was having. Harman was told to understand the important parts of the political agenda - not domestic violence and women, but economics and foreign policy. Harman notes that there was a lot of support from men and women, she knew she had to stick with it and be persistent. Harman talks about creating protocol for having one woman on each shortlist for Labour candidates, there was uproar but only men got selected. Harman says that they then resorted to all women shortlists - recording is interrupted by a bell - Neil Kinnock was a strong supporter of this idea of having all women shortlists. Harman discusses a change in Conservative female MPs and a change in male MPs, the idea of a man supporting a woman's agenda was unthinkable when Harman joined the House. Women are now in the forefront although still outnumbered. Harman ends with a statement about fighting inequality, all discrimination and inequality is wrong and unfair.
Interview with Rachel Reeves MP and Seema Kennedy MP, entitled 'JoCoxLoneliness Campaign'
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/1
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Date : - 2017-11-15 (creation)
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Description : - The Jo Cox Loneliness Campaign was championed by Reeves and Kennedy in memory of the late Jo Cox MP who was murdered in June 2016 after being shot in her Batley and Spen constituency. Reeves and Kennedy co-chair the Jo Cox Loneliness Commission at time of recording and were hoping that the hashtag #happytochat would encourage others to show kindness as part of the @JoCoxLoneliness campaign. The interview: Reeves focuses on how loneliness can affect people's mental and physical health and the commission's upcoming manifesto. Both discuss Cox's upbringing and life, as well as her career as an MP. Sones, Kennedy and Reeves talk about the impact of loneliness whilst working as an MP, the importance of talking to people about motherhood and mental wellbeing. The link between loneliness and physical wellbeing is discussed and how MPs are working cross-party. Examples of local projects in various constituencies is discussed, the role and presence of male loneliness r.e. Army veterans. Sones asks about the impact of Cox's death, Reeves speaks about how proud they are to take forward Cox's work although it has not been easy.