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Videos of Candidates

I had hoped that there would be a video recording of the Hustings at South Yardley Library, but sadly although there were people who said they wanted to do it. It did not happen. However, there was a video recording of the short presentation of the four candidates who went to the Birmingham Mail Twitter Hustings.

I have extracted those comments for the four candidates.
Jess Phillips

Teval Stephens

Grant Bishop

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