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Green 'Big Footing' event
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/25
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Date : - 2015-4-15 (creation)
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Description : - From a a special Green debate with the Guardian journalist Zoe Williams at Downing College, Cambridge. Includes interviews with Green Party Leader Natalie Bennett, Zac, her national campaign manager, and local activists in the audience. As described by the depositor: Natalie told us: “On Climate Change, we have really been left behind while the rest of the World, Countries like China, are towering ahead. That is one of the things our Manifesto focuses on not just energy conservation but renewables. The Green surge has grown more than four fold in the past year in a range of seats we are seeing growth and a whole range of possibilities.” Zac, the National campaigns assistant for the Green Party in England and Wales said: “We have just past 60,000 members in England and Wales so the Green surge is continuing. The green party isn’t really about Natalie it is about the ideas and policies we have got to create a fairer society. We are also challenging Norwich South, the second best result for us last time after Brighton. Cambridge was third for us in 2010. I think we are really moving into multiparty politics, which I think is a more mature system. “ Dennis O'Malley of the Stop the War coalition said he had attended the Hustings to find our “directly” what the Green Party had to say on a number of issues particularly foreign policy: “Yes, we can ask questions directly to the Leader of the Party and get them to talk about issues that they might otherwise avoid.”
Liberal Democrat activist; and a door knocker
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/21
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Date : - 2015-4-12-2015-5-4 (creation)
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Description : - Interviews with Liberal Democrat activist Rachel, on may 4th, and Colin, a door knocker, and the office manager Nicola Martin on April 12th at a door knocker training session. As described by the depositor: Rachel told us: “I didn’t realise how much work goes in on a local level, and how it matters. There are so many activists and councillors working locally and all you hear is what is on the national news. What Nick Clegg tweets, or what David Cameron says, and there are more people on a local level who have invested in it too.” Nicola Martin, campaign assistant for Julian Huppert said they had concentrated on putting across Julian’s positive message. “We just keep everything happy and positive about Julian, as he is the best candidate for Cambridge, so we are telling that to everyone we can.” Colin a veteran door knocker said: ”I have been door knocking since 2005, I got conned into it, but I found it was not as bad as I feared. I haven’t had any training and thought it was about time I got some. Some like it others don’t, you sometimes get nice reactions and others don’t want to be bothered, you have to be prepared for anything, wind ups, aggression, the lot.”
Unite Against Fascism hustings
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/2/11
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Date : - 2015-4-20 (creation)
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Description : - Includes interview with Julian Huppert, MP, and Nazarene, event organiser
Housing hustings
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/2/14
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Date : - 2015-4-23 (creation)
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Description : - Includes interview with Chamali Fernando, Conservative party candidate, and Duncan Stott, organiser of the event.
Cambridge University European Society hustings
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/2/22
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Date : - 2015-5-2 (creation)
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Description : - The final local hustings of this election. Includes interviews with the Anna, society Outreach Officer, and Matteo Mirolo, society Vice President.
Heidi Allen MP - her first "intervention" in the Chamber and doing politics differently
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/10
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Date : - 2015-06-04 (creation)
Will Quince MP and Baroness Susan Kramer give their reaction to Osborne's Autumn Statement
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/29
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Date : - 2015-11-26 (creation)
Caroline Spelman MP - The Europe Referendum June 23rd 2016
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/43
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Date : - 2016-05-25 (creation)
Prof Dalia Leinarte - Women's Rights are Human Rights
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/71
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Date : - 2017-06-08 (creation)
Baroness Susan Kramer, Baroness Anne Jenkin and Anushka Asthana of the Guardian - Tributes to Jo Cox MP
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/47
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Date : - 2016-06-20 (creation)
Northern Ireland #WASPI women march to parliament with Alasdair Mcdonnell
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/65
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Date : - 2017-03-08 (creation)
Baroness Ros Altmann takes a close look at Intergenerational Fairness
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/86
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Date : - 2017-11-01 (creation)
Dr Rupa Huq MP - Buffer Zones and Sexual Harassment in Westminster
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/91
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Date : - 2017-11-15 (creation)
Interview with Emma Lewell-Buck MP on her Food Insecurity Bill - What gets measured gets mended
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/68/1
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Date : - 2019-02-27 (creation)
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Description : - Lewell-Buck's bill looks to ensure that the Government knows how many people are going without food. There are record levels of in work poverty and childhood poverty. The Food Foundation and the UN have suggested that eight million households and four million children live in food poverty. Although Lewell-Buck's Bill will not become law, the government has said that it will be adopting its recommendations and collecting and publishing information. Lewell-Buck gave her response to the Department of Education's announcement that the government will introduce relationship education in primary schools and sex and relationship education in secondary schools from September 2020. Lewell-Buck proceeds to tell Sones why she believes the Labour MP Chris Williamson should be suspended from the Party over his comments on Antisemitism and why the party needs to take a tougher line. On the breakaway Independent Group, she admits feeling 'flat'. As a Remain MP in a Leave voting constituency and she does not support her leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
Interview with Siobhan McDonagh, Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/68/6
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Date : - 2019-03-15 (creation)
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Description : - McDonagh speaks about Brexit, the Labour Party, antisemitism and knife crime
The Oona King diaries read by Oona King
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Reference Code : - SOBA 6/3/4
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Description : - From the 'Documentaries' section
Judy Mallaber MP on the pay gap
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Reference Code : - SOBA 6/3/8
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Description : - From the 'Head to Heads' section
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.
Interview with Fiona Onasanya MP - #SlingTheMesh PMQ
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/17
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Date : - 2018-03-21 (creation)
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Description : - Onasanya speaks about her PMQ to Prime Minister Theresa May calling upon her to support and join the #SlingTheMesh campaign to prevent further Mesh implants which can damage women's health. Onasanya discusses how mesh implants are used and the dangers associated with them. Sones asks about spending cuts and Onasanya agrees that it is a huge issue in her constituency. Sones and Onasanya discuss migrant workers and the need ensure a smooth Brexit transition.
Interview with Jo Swinson MP on #Equal Power: Northern Ireland abortion reforms, women in the boardroom, women and rape, local election results and MPs and maternity and paternity leave
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/29
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Date : - 2018-06-01 (creation)
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Description : - Sones and Swinson discuss Northern Ireland and abortion reforms, Swinson cannot believe Northern Ireland is this far behind, especially in light of the Republic of Ireland voting to make abortion legal. The pair discuss devolution and how it impacts decisions of this kind, Swinson argues that this is a human rights issue and that devolution should not allow for human rights breaches. Sones asks about women in the boardroom and the recent government report. They discuss Swinson's book, 'Equal Power' and what advice Swinson has for women, focusing on looking at your strengths and recognising that we still live in a prejudice world. However, it is very important to listen to people and learn from those who have succeed. Swinson notes how important equality is for men and boys as improving the world as a whole. Sones asks about the recent local elections and the Liberal Democrats being the remain party. Swinson talks about how flexible being an MP whilst pregnant is, and paternal leave after birth or adoption.