Hello and welcome to the political party the first election special for the

2024 general election where I'm attempting to interview 650 candidates

a candidate from every constituency between now and polling day and on today's show I have four. So 646 to go by the end of this episode.

Do get in touch political party

podcast at gmail dot com if you are standing in this election and your

constituency is not covered in this episode or if you are the agent of

someone is or whatever it is get in touch political

party podcast at gmail.com because I have got a lot of people to book and I'm trying to

get a proper mix obviously I will attempt to cover every constituency but also I want

Labor Tory I want a good mix of people from all backgrounds. So today we have four

fantastic guests and the first one made his name as a rock and roll star

It's Dave roundtree the drummer from Blair and he is standing in mid-Sussix so we are going to the south of England if you go to

Victoria train station and firstly just it's hell it's a horrible train station to

have to commute from but you would get a train south towards Brighton and you would go through this constituency.

Mims Davis is the sitting member of Parliament, although there are no MPs now obviously, but was the

MP at the last election and standing again.

But there have been some boundary changes, and that's going to be a theme throughout this series

because there are new constituencies there are all constituencies that have had new

bits added on and it's fascinating to hear whether that helps the candidates

that feature on this series or whether it goes against them,

whether labor areas have been put into Tory areas or vice versa.

So what an amazing way to start with one of the finest drummers in the history of rock and roll and a highly motivated

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