Claire Wright - BBC Radio 4 Today programme interview

On the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning local Devon County & #EDDC Councillor Claire Wright http://www.claire-wright.org/ and East Devon Independent Prospective Parliamentary Candidate in next year’s general election was interviewed by BBC reporter Tom Bateman. The report came from the area in and around Exeter.

Claire Wright was elected for interview as the piece being broadcast, to coincide with the presentation today to Parliament on options for the current issue of “English votes for English people”. In the broadcast package, which concentrated on whether as part of the move towards greater devolved powers within the various UK countries it perhaps was now necessary to consider greater devolution to English Regions.

Within this broadcast piece, which prefaced a live interview with the ex-Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, Claire Wright was the only elected representative who was interviewed. This was due to the fact that she has a proven track record of fighting for local electors interests and because she is an elected Councillor, as well as someone who is standing to be elected as an MP.

Being chosen for interview was truly a great accolade for Claire Wright. You can bet that the #EDDC Conservative Councillors and their MP Hugo Swire must have been cursing her and that bastion of leftist propaganda, the BBC. Some choking on tea and toast must have reverberated across their breakfast tables as Claire Wright broadcast to the nation over the radio waves!

In Claire Wright’s interview which took place in Councillor Twiss’ own backyard in West Hill, she explained why she entered politics originally and why she now felt the need to stand as an independent in next year’s general election. And what was the issue that motivated Claire Wright to become politically active? Yes, you guessed correctly, planning issues! The issue still is at the heart of Claire’s campaigning locally.

 Listen to the whole BBC package on exploring greater powers for English Regions on the BBC iPlayer at – http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b04v380w. The package with reporterTom Bateman starts 2 hours 10 minutes into today’s edition of the Today programme (just after the 8.00am news headlines).

Claire Wright starts being interviewed at 2 hours 12 minutes & 16 seconds in. The whole package ends, just ahead of the John Prescott interview, at 2 hours 16 minutes 10 seconds.

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Claire Wright today blogged about an issue that related to her interview at – http://www.claire-wright.org/index.php/post/planning_law_policy_fuels_inappropriate_development.

Claire’s blog article is “Planning law policy ‘fuels inappropriate development’”.

Yesterday Claire Wright trailed her interview, again on her blog under the understated heading “BBC Radio 4 Today Programme debut” – http://www.claire-wright.org/index.php/post/bbc_today_programme_debut.

Hugo Swire or Councillor Paul Diviani must have turned down the opportunity to be interviewed in order to help Claire Wright in her election campaign!