“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”

The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed

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

Polls are the corporate media’s standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you’re using it.

The media is either our salvation or our death.

The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.

One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

I don’t think individual media outlets will regulate. There are such things as self-regulatory organizations that will look at the members of the industry and their behavior and establish standards of behavior.

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.