5 Minute Interview with  Eleanor Laing

Name:  Eleanor Laing.

Role:  MP for Epping forest.

 What do you see as your role? To serve and support my constituents whenever I can.

What are you working on? I am supporting many bills going through the house at the moment, but I try to get around the constituency as much as I can.

How do you see the election panning out? Well first there is a lot of hard work to be done in order to get the Conservative party back in power. Then we can start to rebuild the country and help every through the hard times we are all facing.

Who is your hero? 

 

5 Minute Interview with Valerie Metcalfe

Name:  Cllr Valerie Metcalfe ( County Councillor)

Role: County councillor for Buckhurst Hill and Loughton South.

What role do you have in the Council? Currently I support the portfolio holder for education and Olympics.

What are you aims for the constituency?  I would like to improve lots of things but know my limitations, so I will concentrate on education, crime and clean streets.

 

5 Minute Interview with  David Cameron

Role: Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition;

 What are you currently working on? Working to bring about the change Britain so desperately needs.

Who is your political hero? I’ve got lots. One has to be Churchill, doesn’t it, given what he saved us from – and probably much of the world from, too. I admire Robert Peel. He did the right thing and put country before party. But there are plenty of other political leaders I admire – in my lifetime, Margaret Thatcher for one.

When do you think the next General Election will be? Next year is beginning to look more likely than this, but Gordon Brown’s mind has already changed on this at least once, so our task is to be ready whenever it comes.

Why should people get involved with organisations like Conservative Party? Rarely has the country needed change as badly as it does now. Given the scale of the challenge we face – first the electoral arithmetic to win the election and then the mess we will have to sort out if we do – we need every hand to the pump. That means everyone who shares the views of the modern Conservative Party should be getting involved. There’s a vital role to play for everyone.

Pick one thing about the last 12 years of the Labour government that you would change? They didn’t fix the roof when the sun was shining. We’ve gone into this recession with a budget deficit of third world proportions, and next year are due to be borrowing 8 per cent of our GDP. It’s a disgrace.