Jack Lopresti, recently elected Member of Parliament for the new constituency of Filton and Bradley Stoke (FABS), has made his maiden speech in the House of Commons. Mr Lopresti’s big moment came during a debate on the Strategic Defence and Security Review on Monday (21st June), in which he urged the government to do more for the welfare of soldiers
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Interesting article (Toasting the new politics) from Paul Barltrop, BBC Political Editor for the West of England, who managed to get Conservative and Lib Dem activists from Bristol North west together to chat on television about their parties’ parliamentary marriage. Could we see a similar love-in on Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC), where the Tories out number the Lib Dems
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A profile of Bradley Stoke’s new MP Jack Lopresti in The Daily Telegraph claims that the former mortgage broker received his “state education” at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS). Somehow I don’t think that’s correct. By my calculation, Mr Lopresti, born in 1969, would have attended secondary school in the 1980s. BSCS opened in September 2005.
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Conservative Jack Lopresti has run out the clear winner in the vote for the Filton and Bradley Stoke constituency. Labour’s candidate Ian Boulton defied the bookies’ odds to clinch second place by a narrow margin over Peter Tyzack of the Liberal Democrats. Full result: Jack Lopresti (Conservative) 19,686 Ian Boulton (Labour) 12,772 Peter Tyzack (Liberal Democrats) 12,197 John Knight (UKIP)
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The turnout for voting in the Filton and Bradley Stoke Constituency has been provisionally announced as 70.1%. With 69,008 eligible voters, that suggests that over 48,400 votes were cast. We are hearing (unofficially) that Jack Lopresti (Conservative) has already reached 16,000 counted votes with the Lib Dem and Labour candidates having about 9,000 each. Now that Conservative Jack Lopresti has
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With counting well under way, the rumours are that Conservative Jack Lopresti is looking the likely winner with up to 40% of the votes. Liberal Democrat supporters observing the count are admitting that it doesn’t look good for their candidate Peter Tyzack. Mr Lopresti has not yet arrived at the count but is expected within the next few minutes.
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Bradley Stoke has seven polling stations open today for voting in the 2010 General Election. Voters have a choice of eight candidates vying to be the first Member of Parliament for the newly-created Filton and Bradley Stoke (FABS) constituency. The local polling stations (open until 10pm) are: Brook Way Activity Centre Jubilee Centre, Savages Wood Road Holy Trinity Church, Broad
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The closely-fought battle for the newly-created constituency of Filton and Bradley Stoke (FABS) has seen Jack Lopresti (Conservative) edge back into a small lead, according to the Electoral Calculus website. The political prediction website had previously given Liberal Democrat candidate Peter Tyzack a tiny 0.15% lead – on the back of the national ‘Clegg Effect’, which peaked after the second
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Dear editor so the truth is out. whoever the next government are, they will be making massive spending cuts to our public services brilliant eh (!) they give themselves a pay rise, massive expense accounts and a second home while we have to put up with savage cuts in funding to our public services (!) stuff that!!!! lets just kick
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Local Liberal Democrats have been buoyed by the news that a well-known election prediction website is forecasting a narrow victory for their candidate in the Filton and Bradley Stoke (FABS) constituency. The Electoral Calculus website, which claims to incorporate regional as well as national swings in its modelling, is currently predicting that Peter Tyzack (Liberal Democrat) will take the seat
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