{"id":1252,"date":"2019-05-15T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T11:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2019-05-15T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T11:15:58","slug":"professor-richard-whitman-to-chair-european-parliamentary-election-hustings-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2019\/05\/15\/professor-richard-whitman-to-chair-european-parliamentary-election-hustings-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Richard Whitman to chair European Parliamentary Election hustings event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Richard Whitman from the School of Politics and International Relations (POLIR) will chair a European Parliamentary Elections hustings event for the South East Region on Thursday 16 May.<\/p>\n<p>The event, organised by Kent Union, will take place <strong>from 18.30 in the Woolf Lecture Theatre on the Canterbury Campus<\/strong> and is free to attend. There is free parking on campus from 17.00.<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in attending are <strong>invited to submit questions in advance of the event to help shape the debate<\/strong>. Questions should be sent to <a>kentunion@kent.ac.uk<\/a> and should be applicable to all candidates.<\/p>\n<p>All parties have been invited to take part and confirmed candidates <strong>appearing at the event are as follows<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Change UK \u2013 Richard Ashworth<\/li>\n<li>Conservative \u2013 Anna Firth<\/li>\n<li>Greens \u2013 Alexandra Philips<\/li>\n<li>Labour \u2013 John Howarth<\/li>\n<li>Liberal Democrats \u2013 Antony Hook<\/li>\n<li>Socialist Party \u2013 Andy Thomas<\/li>\n<li>UKIP \u2013 Liz Phillips<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Brexit Party have been invited but have yet to confirm attendance.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the hustings\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/38388\/european-elections-south-east-region-candidate-debate\">can be found on the event website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Richard Whitman from the School of Politics and International Relations (POLIR) will chair a European Parliamentary Elections hustings event for the South East Region &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2019\/05\/15\/professor-richard-whitman-to-chair-european-parliamentary-election-hustings-event\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39550,"featured_media":1035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131000],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}