Ed Vaizey MP answers your questions...
a-tracy: "Why is there hardly any mention of you being a 'Conservative' MP on your website?"
MPs’ websites are paid from their Incidental Expenses Provision, because they are a way of keeping constituents informed of their activities in Parliament and in the constituency. The use of party political material is prohibited. That is why my web site, and indeed that of your previous correspondent Ann Widdecombe, is generally free from party political material.
I am of course very proud to be a Conservative MP. I have worked for the party in one capacity or another since I was a teenager – the majority of my life. This has included a stint at central office during my gap year, a prominent role in my University Association in the late 80s, a ward chairman and Treasurer of my Association in the 90s, a candidate in two Labour-held council seats and one Labour parliamentary seat, two years as a desk officer in CRD, being a campaign aide to Iain Duncan Smith and a year for Michael Howard as his speechwriter. That is why I am so passionate to see the party I have supported all my life adapt and change to the new electoral landscape, so that we can return to Government and set about making Britain a better place to live.
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