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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
Interview with Vicky Pryce, economist at CBR, on Philip Hammond's statement to the Commons and Brexit
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/14
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Date : - 2018-03-15 (creation)
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Description : - Pryce discusses Brexit and the economy, modest growth at the bottom of the G7 and G20. Hammond was optimistic in his speech about employment and the economy, Pryce questions how low paid these jobs are and supporting these with benefit payments. The fall in the pound and the Bank of England's expenditure to ensure that banks are lending has kept the economy going, but productivity has suffered. Sones asks about whether the country could have got to this point without austerity, Pryce argues that we need higher productivity and growth in many industries, the UK has undertaken the wrong 'type' of austerity. Sones asks about a World Trade Organisation/Hard Brexit, Pryce cites evidence that the UK would not be able to adequately trade especially as WTO Rules do not cover the service industry. Pryce is optimistic that Brexit will be a success and a 'soft' Brexit, despite losing 2% of GDP.
Interview with Jo Platt MP
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/30
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Date : - 2018-06-06 (creation)
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Description : - Platt asked the Prime Minister if she would help set up a national database of ADHD sufferers. Platt, the Labour and Co-operative MP for Leigh and the co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on ADHD asked Theresa May the Prime Minister if she would do more to help people with ADHD and set up a national database. Platt and Helen Whately MP launched the APPG for ADHD at the beginning of 2018 has been working with support groups to enable more research to be conducted about it and to ensure better integration of services. Platt talks to Sones about the Prime Ministers supportive response to it.
Interview with Siobhain McDonagh MP: housing and the National Trust rent rises, proxy votes, Brexit and Antisemitism in the Labour Party
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/40
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Date : - 2018-07-24 (creation)
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Description : - McDonagh, Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden speaks about being concerned with the National Trust's plans to increase their tenants' rent to market levels, believing that this will impact those with disabilities. Sones asks about the proxy voting row over the breaking of Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson's pairing arrangement while she was on maternity leave, McDonagh calls it a 'breach of trust'. On Brexit, McDonagh believes in a Peoples' Vote when the deal is known.
Interview with Seema Malhotra MP: The Brexit Select Committee
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/43
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Date : - 2018-09-13 (creation)
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Description : - Malhotra, Labour MP for Feltham and Heston is a member of the Brexit Select Committee. She speaks to Sones after PMQs where the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had questioned Theresa May MP the Prime Minister on the issue of Universal Credit. Sones asks Malhotra whether she thought PMQs was too noisy, the response May gave and if the Brexit Select Committee was being effective. Malhotra stated that PMQs was so noisy, she could not hear Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and calls for the Government to take this more seriously. They discuss the Chequers Brexit Deal and Malhotra believes it leaves too many unanswered questions.
Interview with Heidi Allen MP on 'fortune Phil's' Budget and Brexit
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/51
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Date : - 2018-10-30 (creation)
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Description : - Allen, the MP for South Cambridgeshire speaks to Parliamentary Radio after Chancellor Philip Hammond produced a budget giving extra money to public services, such as health, defence and pot holes. Allen sits on the Work and Pensions Select Committee and says that Hammond has not done enough to redress the balance of austerity. Allen represents a strong remain constituency where people are employed in agriculture, a high tech industry and academia. She supports a Norway type deal embracing both the single market and the customs union which would solve the problem of the Northern Irish border. Allen explained that she would continue to campaign to reform the introduction of Universal Credit.
209 Women Photo Exhibition in #Vote100 year of 207 women MPs
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/60
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Date : - 2018-12-14 (creation)
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Description : - Sones spoke to Yvette Cooper, Andrea Leadsom, Helen Whately, Kate Osamor, Lyn Brown and Marsha de Cordova about the Photo Exhibition
Interview with Maria Miller, Conservative MP for Basingstoke and Chair of the Equalities Select Committee as MPs are asked to plant a tree and cut carbon emissions
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Reference Code : - SOBA 2/21
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Date : - 2019-10-24 (creation)
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Description : - Sones and Miller are looking onto an Extinction Rebellion protest to get Ministers to 'pick up a tree', Sones follows Miller as she tries to find her tree (based on her constituency location). Sones speaks to an Extinction Rebellion member. Miller plans on taking the tree back to Basingstoke to show how important trees are for a healthy environment. Miller discusses the protests and says that everything she sees is positive. The ER Member wants to raise awareness about the fact that the Government has not planted enough trees to redress the issues and they want to change the zero-emissions date to 2025. Miller thinks that whilst government legislation is important, it needs people to change how they act and live their lives.
Vicky Ford, Conservative MP for Chelmsford and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group MP interviewed by Jackie Ashley on Theresa May's legacy for Women
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Reference Code : - SOBA 2/8
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Date : - 2019-05-22 (creation)
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Description : - Ford thinks her impact has been 'massive' in getting more women to stand for Parliament. Ford talks about Theresa May's support in her constituency. Ashley asks about May's cabinet and the proportion of women and speaks about the chances provided to her.