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38 Degrees hosted a hustings last night at Bembridge Sailing Club. The event was streamed online and thousands of people tuned in from home. Watch it here to see how the candidates did.
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OnTheWight will be reporting live from the Count throughout the night - keep an eye on our live feed to stay up to date with election trivia, photographs from the count as well as cartooning wizardry.
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The Isle of Wight has spoken. The new Isle of Wight MP has been announced and Labour saw its highest vote since 1959, almost doubling the 2015 results.
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The new Isle of Wight MP, Bob Seely, says he will seek assurances on the future of the power-sharing Executive in Northern Ireland, as part of the Conservative / DUP deal.
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The newly-elected Conservative Isle of Wight MP, Bob Seely, took a delegation of councillors and officers to meet the Department for Education today to put forward their case on behalf of the Sandown community.
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Newly-elected Conservative MP for the Isle of Wight, Bob Seely, used his first vote in Parliament to block an amendment that would have given firefighters, ambulance staff, nurses and teachers a fair pay rise. He explains to OnTheWight why he voted as he did.
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In his Maiden speech, the new IW MP lays out his range of issues he wishes to tackle for the Isle of Wight - without a Tiger in sight.
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One resident whose blood was contaminated by the NHS decades ago has been forced to pay for her own treatment, Isle of Wight MP, Bob Seely, told the House last night.
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New Isle of Wight MP, Bob Seely, founds new all-party parliamentary group (APPG) to promote the interests of islands around the UK.
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It's taken quite a while to get a response on whether Bob Seely will remain an Isle of Wight councillor whilst holding his position as Member of Parliament.
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Isle of Wight MP, Bob Seely, has written to Education minister, Nick Gibb, asking him to “unequivocally support” continued secondary education in the Sandown bay area.
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Isle of Wight MP, Bob Seely, has asked government to use the Isle of Wight as site for a VAT reduction study.
