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Video: Watch Tom Hunt – the Tory hoping to topple Sandy Martin as Ipswich MP

Friday, September 28, 2018 Paul Geater

Ipswich Conservative Candidate Tom Hunt. Picture: PAUL GEATER

Tom Hunt is preparing for his new life as Conservative candidate for Ipswich with a pledge to fight for the town’s infrastructure . . . and a promise that he “knows his way around Whitehall.”

Tom Hunt to fight Ipswich for the Conservatives at the next general election

Thursday, September 27, 2018 Paul Geater

Tom Hunt has been chosen to fight the Ipswich parliamentary seat for the Conservatives at the next general election.

Opinion: Ipswich’s early Conservative selection need not mean early general election

Thursday, September 27, 2018 Paul Geater

Alex Deane, Joel Charles, and Tom Hunt relax at a Conservative Quiz night in Ipswich before the selection meeting tonight. Picture: ALEX DEANE

Tonight Ipswich’s Conservative Association is choosing its new parliamentary candidate to fight Sandy Martin at the next general election.

Meet the three men hoping to be Ipswich’s next Tory MP – who will take on Sandy Martin at the next election?

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 Paul Geater

Alex Deane is seeking the Conservative nomination to fight the Ipswich parliamentary seat. Picture: ALEX DEANE

Ipswich Conservatives are to select a candidate on Thursday to take on Sandy Martin in the marginal seat at the next general election.

I always think of what a friend of mine said: social media is social incontinence

Wednesday, September 12, 2018 Steve Russell

'Everybody now has something to say. Though of course 99.9% of people have nothing to say,' says John Banville Picture: DOUGLAS BANVILLE

Booker Prize winner John Banville on alter-ego Benjamin Black, why he hates summer, the beauty of a dishwasher manual and Norwich’s one-way systems

Tory Castle Hill ward could be added to marginal Ipswich seat

Monday, September 10, 2018 Paul Geater

Sandy Martin beat Ben Gummer in 2017. But would the result in Ipswich have been different if Castle Hill had been in the seat? Picture by ASHLEY PICKERING

Suffolk’s only Labour MP could find it harder than ever to retain his Ipswich seat at the next general election if Boundary Commission recommendations are implemented.

Opinion: British politics is in a truly bad place – how can it reconnect with the voters?

Thursday, August 16, 2018 Paul Geater

Boris Johnson brings tea for the press to drink outside his house in Thame. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo.

There is a common misconception about elections in this country (and I suspect in most other democracies).

Gallery: Days Gone By: Looking back to when Margaret Thatcher visited Felixstowe Docks in 1983

Saturday, August 4, 2018 Sam Dawes

Meeting workers around the docks Picture: JOHN KERR

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher paid a visit to Felixstowe Docks just months before the General Election of 1983 - were you one of those who met the Iron Lady during her tour?

Ipswich’s Upper Orwell Crossings in doubt after Suffolk calls for rethink

Tuesday, July 31, 2018 Paul Geater

An aerial view of the Upper Orwell Crossings. Picture: SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL

A huge question mark has been raised over the future of the Upper Orwell Crossings in Ipswich after Suffolk County Council announced it was suspending work on the project to allow its costs to be reviewed.