In this episode we discuss the following topics and more:

- The Armed Forces Parliamentary scheme - visiting the Falklands

- How does an MP balance their own personal views vs their constituents

- Voting against the party

- The role of the Speaker and the value of Prime Minister’s Question time

- Why did you join the Conservative party?

- Political career from Councillor to MP

- How to become a political candidate and what campaigning is like

- What the average day campaigning and as an MP looks like

- Party politics, ideologies and the public division on matters

- The problems with our political system

- Brexit

Bio: My guest today is Andrew Bingham. Andrew was born and raised in Buxton, East Midlands and started his career working at his father’s business, supplying engineering equipment to the north-west of England. Andrew was elected in 1999 to the High Peak Borough Council. Aspirations to sit in parliament led him to run for in 2005 and lose the seat for the High Peak, which he won 2010 general election. Not your traditional Conservative party member, he was labelled as a ‘serial rebel’ by national newspapers. While in office he ran many charity fundraisers and voted on key issues such as military involvement in Syria and Brexit, which he supported. He lost his seat at the 2017 General Election.