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The Political Party

Election 24 Special, Ep 24

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4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Election 24, Episode 24


The Battlebus picks up the pace as we speed around Britain on another grand tour of Election 24. 


Today's candidates are:


Samia Hersi, Conservative, Queens Park and Maida Vale 

X: @SamiaHersi

W: https://www.samiahersi.uk/


Chris Foren, Green Party, Leeds Central and Headingley

W: https://leeds.greenparty.org.uk/our-people/ge-candidate-chris-foren/


Graeme Downie, Labour, Dunfermline and Dollar

X: @CllrDownie

W: https://graemedownie.com/


Zoe Franklin, Lib Dem, Guildford

X: @ZoeFranklinLD

W: https://www.guildfordlibdems.org.uk/


Just 551 to go...

If you are a candidate or know one who'd like to come on the show, email [email protected]


SEE Matt at the Edinburgh Festival in August: Matt Forde The End of an Era Tour




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0:00.0

BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants,

0:06.2

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain.

0:13.0

While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our

0:16.8

global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other

0:19.8

transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023.

0:26.4

BP.com slash and not all. Hello and welcome to episode 24 of this special election 24 series trying to

0:47.4

interview 650 candidates. 555 remain at the end of today show 551 which means by the end of today's show I'll have to 99 candidates.

0:59.0

My word huge progress but a lot more to do.

1:03.6

So get in touch, political party podcast, if you'd like to be on the show as a candidate,

1:07.6

if you can put me in touch you on, use the same email address.

1:11.0

Thanks to all of you who have been in touch and if you could leave a five-star written review to other people find the podcast, I'd be very grateful.

1:20.0

This is another whistle stop tour of the country and of the election and our first stop is in

1:26.2

West London.

1:27.2

Queens Park and made avail a delightful part of the city full of some really cool places and we're going there to meet the

1:34.8

conservative candidate Samia Hersi.

1:42.0

Samia, you're the conservative candidate for Queens Park and made a veil which is a new constituency

1:47.1

it's most of Westminster North which labour hold plus a few other wards so I don't know if that makes it more winnable or less winnable for you?

1:58.0

So we do lose quite a few wards actually that goes to the city's under, West Minister and Kensington Bay's Water.

2:05.3

So it does, as you said, it's mostly Westminster North, but it takes wards from Brent Central,

2:10.5

now it's renamed Brent East, and Hampstead Kilburn now renamed Hampstead Highgate.

2:14.8

So I think it's a great constituency I think is very lovely I'm not going to say that the odds are

2:20.1

not stacked against me they are but I think you know it's an honor and privilege to be standing as its first conservative candidate is such a beautiful area that has so much potential.

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