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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
Patrick O’Flynn – UKIP general election candidate
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/15
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Date : - 2015-4-18 (creation)
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Description : - Interviewed while campaigning in King's Hedges. As described by the depositor: We met Patrick O’Flynn when he and his team were campaigning in a target ward for them, Kings Hedges. He said: “This is one of the more working class wards in Cambridge and we have had a series of action days where we have targeted and leafleted people in our target wards, which tend to be the more blue collared wards. Last night we had a big public meeting in the Ward in the Arbury Community Centre, and other members of our Party attended. We had the added attraction of Douglas Carswell, and I am UKIP national campaign director too so I have been on the television quite a lot. Douglas brought in the extra turnout and we had a really good night. We are getting the leaflets through the door, but it is very mixed. Some say there is no place for UKIP in Cambridge, because we want migration controls. “I do Tweet but I don’t do Facebook but the Party puts a lot into Facebook with Nigel Farage and others in the party. We are coming from a fairly low base in Cambridge but we are the new kid on the Cambridge scene but we have taken massive strides forward. We have eight candidates for 14 wards, I am proud of that, and through the local elections we will find out where our strength lies to hopefully go on to win local seats in 2016. “Cambridge is a Liberal Left city but the liberal left vote is split so it gives me a niche between the blue collar and Conservative vote who might like some of our pledges on defence spending and looking after some of our veterans, law and order and EU and immigration and inheritance tax.”
Documentary: The Conservatives fight for equality
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/2/3
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Date : - 2016-02-12 (creation)
Labour 'Big Footing' event
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/24
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Date : - 2015-2-25 (creation)
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Description : - Interviews on Harrian Harman's pink bus, including with Harman, and members of her team Sally Gimson, from the Labour List website, and Ann Sinnott a Cambridge Councillor. As described by the depositor: We asked Harriet, how many places her pink bus would be visiting and why the colour of the bus had provoked so much criticism? She spoke of how important the women’s vote was to her party. Harriet told us: “There has been a lot of controversy about the colour, but I can’t really regard it as negative publicity because how can you have a debate about something so insignificant. As we have gone around the Country, women are concerned, not about the colour, but about what is going on in women’s lives and what local government and national government can do for them. The women’s vote is very important to Labour and for women to vote. Last time in 2010, 9.1 million didn’t vote. I think it is important that we hear women’s voices that women have their say and exercise their vote. Politics is too important to be left to the boys.” Sally Gimson, from the Labour List website, said: “People are hooting on the motorway as the pink bus goes by. It has been mocked but not viciously attacked. It has made people look at women’s issues. All publicity is good publicity. The cost of living, people’s income, child care, DV, the grooming of children, sexual harassment, are big issues for women as well. The battle has not yet been won for women and that is why we are out on the pink bus.” Ann Sinnott, a Labour City Councillor since May 2014, said: “I was delighted with the pink bus and there is nothing wrong with the colour. The mediation service we visited, do very good work, and there were other representatives there working with vulnerable women and women with DV. It costs the police huge amounts of money each year, it is costly and there is a human cost too. DV is the biggest crime anywhere.”
Cambridge Evening News: part one
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/33
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Date : - 2015-4-23-2015-4-27 (creation)
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Description : - Interviews with John Vale political editor and reporter at the Cambridge Evening News. As described by the depositor: After attending one Hustings event and chairing another John told us: “It is very important that people know where their candidates stand on a wide range of issues. People need to know the full range of issues from what the candidates will do about potholes to the big humanitarian crisis facing us, such as the Palestinian situation. The Conservative and UKIP candidates were invited and didn’t turn up to that one today on Palestine, so people need to know that too. “What I try and do with Twitter is not to give any sort of interpretation but to give an account of what was said. The candidates go within two hours from talking about how you solve dyslexia to how you solve the crisis of the Middle East. “Twitter has 140 characters and we very rarely go beyond 600 in a story in the paper. It is only possible to capture 10 or 20 per cent of the debate, so it’s not an easy task, what I find interesting might not be interesting to others, but I do my best. There is a lot of knowledge to get on the page.”
Poll card deliverers
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/5
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Date : - 2015-4-22 (creation)
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Description : - As described by the depositor: Robert also delivers poll cards, as does Harriet Morgan, who we met at the Buddhist Hustings event. Robert has delivered 4000 poll cards this year. However Harriet thinks delivering cards does matter as it can give people the chance to realise they need to register if they haven’t done so already. .“People do say “where’s mine”. Vicky told us she has 150 staff that work for her department on polling day, and training them is essential. There is no electoral legislation to cover the use of mobile phones, Twitter or Facebook.
Postal voter and hustings organiser
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/7
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Date : - 2015-4-27 (creation)
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Description : - As described by the depositor: We caught up with a postal voter who had helped organise the Brunswick and North Kite, Residents Association Hustings, Sue Gordon Roe. Around 200 people attended from the area after Sue and her friends delivered 500 invites to their neighbours. She organised a postal vote for her husband and daughter and voted on April 24th before she went on holiday: “I rang up and they sent it. We voted locally and we voted nationally. Double envelopes, all through the post and the door.”
Presiding Officer, Robert Osborn
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/2/13
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Date : - 2015-4-22 (creation)
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Description : - Interview with Vicky Breading , City Council’ Electoral Services Manager, and long serving Presiding Officer, Robert Osborn at a training night for Presiding Officers.
Rupert Read at Bike Hustings
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/2/4
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Date : - 2015-4-7 (creation)
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Description : - Interview with Rupert Read, Green Party general election candidate
Middle East and Palestinian hustings
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/2/16
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Date : - 2015-4-27 (creation)
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Description : - Includes interviews with John Vale and organiser Pam Manning and her chair, Mona.
Dr Liam O'Toole, CEO of Arthritis Research UK, on "Arthritis Champion" MPs
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/11
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Date : - 2015-06-12 (creation)
Jess Phillips MP and Lucy Powell MP - Motherhood, childcare, DV and children, and a new push on Sure Start
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/21
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Date : - 2015-09-29 (creation)
Baroness Featherstone – How Britain's gay marriage laws were changed and the Liberal Democrats fight for equality
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/39
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Date : - 2016-03-03 (creation)
Kate Green MP - 2016 and Putting Equality First in the New Year
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/33
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Date : - 2015-12-21 (creation)
Keir Starmer MP, Angela Rayner MP, Seema Malhotra MP and Ivana Bartoletti, Fabian Women's Chair - Fabian women launch a Five Point Charter for BREXIT
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/57
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Date : - 2016-11-25 (creation)
Caroline Noakes MP, artist Mary Branson, and Melanie Unwin, Deputy Curator, on the New Dawn art installation in parliament
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/46
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Date : - 2016-06-08 (creation)
Maggie Throup MP and The APPG on Modern Day Slavery
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/50
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Date : - 2016-09-09 (creation)
Sandy Martin MP Sexism in the Chamber - Speaking in the House
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/81
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Date : - 2017-09-14 (creation)
Helen Jones MP on dress codes and high heels at work
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/63
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Date : - 2017-03-08 (creation)
Siobhain McDonagh MP Temporary Accommodation Debate House of Commons
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/89
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Date : - 2017-11-08 (creation)
Alison McGovern MP - Where is our Bright new future?
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/1/88
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Date : - 2017-11-02 (creation)
Interview with Dame Caroline Spelman MP - Yezidi Women and ISIS survivors
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/20
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Date : - 2018-03-26 (creation)
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Description : - Spelman hosted an exhibition of art in Westminster Hall on 26 March portraying the work of artist Hannah Rose Thomas who drew gold leaf portraits of Yezidi women who had escaped ISIS captivity. Working with the Christian Charity, Open Doors, Thomas hoped that her exhibition would draw further attention to the plight of the Yezidi Women. The recording first hears from Thomas about some of the art and the individuals behind them. Sones asks about the exhibition, Spelman discusses how important a cause this is and her experience of the Yezidi Women who visited Parliament. Sones talks to Thomas once again and she explains her art and her time spent with the Yezidi Women. Sones moves onto talk to Rosie Winterton MP and Open Doors Head of Advocacy Zoe Smith. Both women talk the listener through the stories within the exhibition and displays. Both add that international solidarity is very important, especially during #Vote100. Sones speaks to Spelman again, who maintains that International Aid is given to appropriate groups and to ensure that the poorest get the assistance they need.
Interview with Maggie Throup MP for Erewash on her debate on junk food and children's health
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Reference Code : - SOBA 1/4
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Date : - 2018-01-17 (creation)
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Description : - Throup is speaking in support of the government's moves to clamp down on the sugar content of foods but says advertisements for junk food should not be shown when children are likely to be watching. Throup discusses the obesity epidemic and the cost to society, their health and how important this this. Sones asks why it is Jamie Oliver leading the challenge to the obesity epidemic. Throup is also asked about modern slavery and Theresa May's role.