Our common future: Putting general election candidates on the spot
June 2, 2017
Susan Atkinson, CAFOD volunteer Deanery Co-ordinator for Hartlepool in the diocese of Hexham and Newcastle reports on a local hustings event.
![Susan (right) asks a CAFOD question to local candidates](https://blog.cafod.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Susan-Atkinson-asks-a-question-300x177.jpg)
Hartlepool is a rock-solid Labour seat. Always has been, always will be…though maybe not this time! At the last election, UKIP ran them close and, with our sitting MP stepping down and a new and largely unknown Labour candidate, anything might happen!
So my local hustings, for candidates standing for election in Hartlepool, had the potential to be interesting.
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