2015 General Election 2015

I recently completed a 5 day reportage trip around Britain for Sweden’s largest daily morning newspaper Dagens Nyheter together with their London correspondent Pia Gripenberg.

Brighton – The Green Party

We went to the Hanover the Green heartland area in Brighton affectionately known as ‘Muesli Mountain’ and spoke with local residents about their opinions of The Green Party. We also met with Jason Kitcat leader of the Council & Convenor of the Green Group.

Ramsgate, Broadstairs & Deal – UKIP & The Conservatives

Annan & Glencaple – The Scottish Nationalist Party

We met with nurse and SNP candidate Emma Harper and her campaign manager Robertson Wellen and followed them canvassing in Annan and Glencaple. Emma is a Candidate for the district of Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale.
The interesting story about this district is that its current MP David Mundell is the only Conservative MP representing a Scottish constituency, Emma used her maiden SNP conference speech to highlight the fact that she is the nurse who will kick the last Tory MP out of Scotland.

Carlisle – The Labour Party

In Carlisle we met with Labour’s candidate Lee Sherriff at her campaign shopfront office and then followed her when she went out door knocking. There has never been a female MP in Cumbria and single mum of three and would-be Labour MP Lee Sherriff hopes to change that on May 7th.