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INTERVIEW: David Drew

17th March 2010

A quick email interview with David Drew, current MP for Stroud.

What three policies would you like to see in the 2010 Labour manifesto?

1. Renationalisation of the railways
2. Restore Trade Union rights to before Thatcher’s destructive regime
3. Eradication of child and pensioner poverty

What issues will you be campaigning on in Parliament if re-elected?
See above and;

• No return to fox hunting
• Protection of public sector jobs
• The LEAP agenda for the economy, including cracking down on tax havens, etc

What do you think has been Labour’s greatest achievement and its greatest mistake in Government?
Achievement: Starting to deal with the problem of child poverty including Sure Start and investment in education.
Mistake: Iraq and Afghanistan

What are the major local issues in Stroud?
Many and varied:

• Protection of jobs in both manufacturing and the public sector
• Pensions
• Fox hunting
• Planning issues and the countryside

How can activists help you to win in Stroud?
We need bodies out on the street but if not then contacting uncontacted voters, and then there is piles of delivering to do!

Go to the David Drew profile page