New Politics For New Voters

Author: Sam Newton
Title: ‘New Politics’ For New Voters
As with all government maxims the latest political watchword ‘New Politics’ has been treated with a typically ample dose of British cynicism. But perhaps on this occasion our native scepticism may be misplaced. The Liberal-Conservative coalition marks an historic departure from our oldest political tradition when The Whigs [...]

Democracy Live on BBC Website

The BBC’s Democracy Live website allows you to keep up with your local MP.
Find a representative or topic, or words spoken in BBC video coverage:
Leicester South – Sir Peter Soulsby
Leicester East – Keith Vaz
Leicester West – Liz Kendall

Election Day Diary

Author: James Black
E-mail: jb23black@msn.com
Title: Election Day Diary
Almost a month on from the General Election as the country gets used to the first coalition government since 1945, (and all of the civil partnership jokes aimed at Nick Clegg and David Cameron,) I had the chance to catch up with one of the many council workers who [...]

Prospective Governors Forum

A Prospective Governors’ Forum is being held for those public, service user, carer and staff members who are interested in putting themselves forward to be a governor at the Trust.
This session is being held on Tuesday 11 May 2010, 6.00 – 7.45 pm, at George Hine House.  If you would like to attend or would [...]

Immigration and The General Election

The high level of agreement on the central core of immigration policy between the three major parties hides the fact that there is much that is very wrong with the way the PBS and asylum policy operate, as well as the treatment of EU migrants in the UK today.
There is a pressing need for organisations [...]

View from the political fringes

By Ian Burnip, Leicester Centre for Journalism
Many political strategists consider the ‘fringe’ parties to be nothing more than spoilers, taking potentially valuable votes away from their candidates.
Perhaps this is why the UKIP candidate in South Leicestershire was not invited to any election hustings organised by the big three parties.
While Andrew Robathan, Sally Gimson and Aladdin [...]

Three city seats stay Labour

By Beckie Rowe, Leicester Centre for Journalism
Central Leicester will once again be represented by Labour - for the second election running Leicester South, East and West remain red.
Aylestone Leisure Centre on Knighton Lane played host for the count with votes coming in from 103 polling stations across the three constituencies.
First announced were the results for Leicester [...]

Labour fall to third in South Leicestershire

By Ian Burnip, Leicester Centre for Journalism
In a shock result, Labour’s Sally Gimson fell from second ­place to third in the newly defined South Leicestershire constituency.
Mrs Gimson, who was standing in her first election was looking to overturn a Conservative majority of 7,502, however in the end she lost 3,222 votes. The turnout was a [...]

Labour’s 4,000 majority in Leicester West

By Camilla Goodman, Leicester Centre for Journalism
Liz Kendall has won the election battle for Leicester West keeping hold of Labour’s seat with 13,745 votes.
Patricia Hewitt’s successor was announced at 4am today, at Aylestone Leisure Centre, in Knighton Lane East, Leicester, with a considerable win over the Conservatives who secured 9,728 votes, and the Liberal Democrats [...]

Tory doubles majority in Harborough

By Zeenat Sabur and Meera Majithia, Leicester Centre for Journalism
Conservative candidate Edward Garnier more than doubled his majority, winning the Harborough seat with a total 26,894 votes.
Liberal Democrat candidate Zuffar Haq finished second with 17,097 votes giving Mr Garnier a majority of 9,797.
The number of votes recorded represented 70.6 per cent of the registered electors [...]

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