“With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives”

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

Be nice to everyone and all that.

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.

People have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks.

There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.

For me it’s more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour

The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging.

But also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.

I’m the first to admit I’ve had a sheltered life.

We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.

I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business

I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat

Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.

…the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

I find it fascinating to see other people’s photos on social media but I don’t upload pictures myself. I don’t even know how to. I’m completely digital-phobic.

As her parents, Aishwarya and I want our child to be happy and healthy. I was guarded from all this (media attention and showbiz world).

Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the ‘Voices Compassionate Education’ website and on ‘Inner Michael’,

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.