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Green Party launch national LGBTIQ Manifesto in Soho

Green Party launch national LGBTIQ Manifesto in Soho

Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, launched the party’s LGBTIQ Manifesto in Soho today. The manifesto contains pledges to: Review the discriminatory blood ban; introduce LGBTIQ-inclusive sex education; protect LGBTIQ asylum seekers; improve services for trans people and

Purna Sen: Labour Party Parliamentary Candidate for Brighton Pavilion

Purna Sen: Labour Party Parliamentary Candidate for Brighton Pavilion

Purna came to the UK from India in 1962, studied in state schools and taught in adult, community and further education. She has worked for NGOs on violence against women and human rights and with asylum seekers and refugees. She became single at the age of 40, with two teenage daughters.

Chris Bowers: Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Brighton Pavilion

Chris Bowers: Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Brighton Pavilion

Chris Bowers, the Liberal Democrat candidate for Brighton Pavilion is a writer and broadcaster, commentating on radio and TV for Eurosport, ESPN and internet media, and a member of the BBC 5 Live team at Wimbledon for 12 years from 1994-2007. Chris works in the environmental movement, has been a cou

What has your Pavilion MP been doing for you for the last 5 years?

What has your Pavilion MP been doing for you for the last 5 years?

Caroline Lucas was elected MP for Brighton Pavilion in May 2010. She looks back over the last five years at what she has been able to achieve for her LGBT residents. As the first Green MP to be elected to Parliament, I have actively campaigned for same sex marriage legislation tabling amendments whe

Simon Kirby: Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven

Simon Kirby: Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven

Sussex born Simon, lives with his wife and his six children in East Brighton. He was elected as the Conservative MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven at the last general election in May, 2010. Simon was first elected to represent the people of Kemptown in 1992, as a Councillor on East Sussex Coun

Davy Jones: Green Party Parliamentary Candidate for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven

Davy Jones: Green Party Parliamentary Candidate for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven

Davy Jones is standing for the Green Party in Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven and says it is important for him to stand up for what matters in the place where he and his two daughters grew up – a place whose radicalism has inspired his politics for decades. This is his first foray into actually bei

Paul Chandler, Liberal Democrat Candidate for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven

Paul Chandler, Liberal Democrat Candidate for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven

Paul Chandler has lived in Kemptown for over ten years and, in that time, has been an active member of his community. He has helped shape the plans for the new hospital that Brighton so badly needs as a member of the local resident’s consultative committee. For the last three years Paul has given ti

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