Today we finish up my five part series interviewing the Disability spokespeople from the UK political parties. This final interview is with Mark Harper, Minister of State for Disabled People, and thus pretty far up the ladder. Mark became the Minister on 15th July 2014 having been in parliament since 2005. JR: You’ve very recently […]
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Stephen Lloyd MP
Second in our set of four political interviews Is Stephen Lloyd the MP for Eastbourne and member of the Liberal Democrats… As with UKIP, the process of getting hold of the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson was somewhat confusing… Them: “Hello, Liberal Democrat press office.” Me: Hello, my name is Joe Reddington and I run a disability […]
Cllr Star Etheridge, disability spokesman for UKIP
We kick off our set of four political interviews with Cllr Star Etheridge, disability spokesman for UKIP, I spent some time in the last post being impressed with Star’s general efficiency and so today all I have to do is introduce her. Star is a solicitor who represents the Coseley East Ward in the West […]
Politics unusual: I interviewed the disability spokespeople for each of the four main parties, including the Minister of State for Disabled People Mark Harper
This is the first post in a five part series. The next post will be an interview with Cllr Star Etheridge who is the Disability Spokesman* for UKIP and next Monday’s will be an interview with Stephen Lloyd, MP for Eastbourne and Willingdon representing the liberal democrats. On that Wednesday, we’ll have Kate Green, MP for […]