VIDEO: watch our Mayoral Hustings at the Arcola in full

Representatives from all standing parties took place in the Hackney Citizen mayoral hustings at the Arcola Theatre on Sunday 29 April. The event was streamed live on Facebook, and we can now bring you the video in full – perfect for those of you still making up your minds before polling day tomorrow!

The speakers were Mayor Philip Glanville (Labour), Alastair Binnie-Lubbock (Green Party), Pauline Pearce (Liberal Democrats), Harini Iyengar (Women’s Equality Party), Vernon Williams (Independent), and Jack Sutcliffe (Conservative), a Dalston ward candidate filling in for Tory mayoral candidate Imtiaz Lunat, who could not make the event.

Questions covered housing, cuts to special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), language barriers for Turkish-speaking residents, supporting BAME businesses, the Britannia Leisure Centre redevelopment, prostitution, HIV, anti-semitism, homelessness, old age, and mental health.

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Philip Glanville (Labour, incumbent): interview
Alastair Binnie-Lubbock (Green): interview
Pauline Pearce (Liberal Democrats): interview
Imtiaz Lunat (Conservatives): interview
Harini Iyengar (Women’s Equality Party): interview
Vernon Williams (Independent): interview