In our social home, we know where we stand. It won't suddenly disappear. The rent won't double overnight.

We can make plans now. We can build a life. We were lucky, but millions are waiting for social homes that aren't being built.

We need to fix this so a new generation can be proud to say we are made in social housing.

Building social housing is the only way out of this housing emergency.

Join the fight at shelter.org. UK. Welcome to episode 7. That's right the 650 challenge is a week old. I hope you

still enjoying election 24 on whatever level you can find to enjoy it at the start of today's show there were 631 candidates left for me to interview at the end of today's there will be 628 three more for you today if you're a candidate

and you'd like to come on in a constituency I haven't yet featured please get in touch

political party podcast at gmail dot. If you'd like some light relief

I'll be bringing my brand new show to the Edinburgh Festival the end of an era at all

of course a nod to Taylor Swift and I'm doing three nights at the Soho Theatre. I have put a link to those

tickets in the blurb. I'm doing the 20th 21st and 22nd of June so if you want

some light relief from what's happening in the election do come along to

that you can click on the link and get tickets straight away and of course you can now

connect to all the candidates in every episode.

So today, without further ado, where are we off to first?

Well, for the first time this election campaign,

we are heading to Northern Ireland with the leader of the SDDLP and his party's candidate in FOIL,

Colin Eastwood.

Colin has been on the show before, he's a fantastic communicator and this is an amazing summary not just of the issues in the constituency, but of the politics of Northern Ireland,

the politics happening on the island of Ireland, the political fallout of Brexit and just how the other forces in this election,

i.e. Kistama versus Rishusunak, play out in his seat.

Holland, you're the leader of the STLP as well as the party's candidate in FOIL, a seat that you've held since 2019. Shin Fain held it for two brief years in 2017 to 2019. What can we deduce about the politics of the constituency as a result of that?

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