Copnor Ward hustings: Portsmouth 2026
Pompey Politics Podcast
Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris
5.0 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Joining us for our 2026 Copnor ward hustings are:-
🟦Ben Swann
🟥Andy Butterworth
(Our invitation was extended to the other three candidates).
Hustings rules available on our website https://www.pppodcast.uk/2026-hustings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aT--wYfSSM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2klCbY4ZH4
Questions
- What are the top three issues in the ward & how would you fix them?
- Traffic and parking are frequent frustrations for residents - how would you tackle them?
- What would you do to breathe new life into our shopping areas, or is the high street as we know it dead?
- Voter turnout across the city varies significantly, with some wards repeatedly less than half of others. How can this be addressed?
- To what degree do national politics overshadow local issues - which is more important, person or party?
- HMOs. Good bad or ugly? Would you seek to improve them, limit them or stop them all together?
- What would you see the council do to tackle the knife crime and other violent assaults on our city's streets?
- LGR - good or bad thing for Portsmouth?
- This year we celebrate the centenary of Portsmouth - what about the city are you most proud?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast. It's our 2026 Kopner Hustings. I'm Ian |
| 0:07.2 | Tiny Morris. And I'm Simon Sandsbury. Good afternoon. That sounds wrong. I'm so used to seeing |
| 0:12.8 | good evening. Well yes but eventually after probably one of the slowest starts ever, all of a rush, |
| 0:20.1 | we suddenly ended up doing three hustings |
| 0:22.6 | in five days and today we focus on the north of the city in the ward of Copna. Yes, so we have |
| 0:30.9 | two of the candidates for Copner Ward joining us today and I'll introduce those in a second |
| 0:35.9 | and but I'll just those in a second. |
| 0:44.8 | But I'll just quickly explain before I do just how our hustings work and how we've invited candidates. |
| 0:45.7 | So I'm just going to go through that quickly now. |
| 0:49.1 | So we've held hustings for Portsmouth local elections since 2022. |
| 0:54.9 | And this year, for logistical reasons, we have invited candidates standing for parties which achieved at least 1% of the citywide vote share in either the local or general elections in 2024. |
| 1:05.6 | You can check those figures from the Portsmouth Council website. |
| 1:10.5 | In practice, this would have meant the Conservatives, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, |
| 1:15.2 | Portsmouth Independent Party and Reform. |
| 1:18.9 | About two weeks before the close of nominations, |
| 1:21.3 | we contacted all of the incumbents that we knew were re-standing, |
| 1:24.8 | the parties themselves, and any candidates we were already aware of. |
| 1:28.0 | And after the close of nominations, when they were announced on April 10th, we also repeated |
| 1:33.8 | this to include the candidates from the major parties for whom we could find contact |
| 1:37.7 | details. Some, sadly, we couldn't get in touch with. |
| 1:41.0 | It's fair to say the responses this year have been a little bit lower than previous |
| 1:45.0 | years. But in regards to Koppner, so we reached out to all of the candidates there, we can |
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