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Events Round Up: Wednesday 27 November 2019

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes an announcement on a £1 billion proposal to improve mobile phone signal in rural areas 

Leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn makes an announcement on the NHS and also attends a climate emergency rally in Cornwall 

Health Secretary Matt Hancock makes an announcement on a proposal for a national vaccination reminder system

Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott makes an announcement to expand 18 Violence Reduction Units in police forces in Hackney. Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon also attends 

Labour Party Chair Ian Lavery makes an announcement for a proposal to halve food bank usages within 12 months 

Liberal Democrat candidate for Kensington Sam Gyimah speaks about Brexit and the upcoming General Election in Holborn. Liberal Democrat candidate for Cities of London & Westminster Chuka Umunna and Lord Heseltine also attend (3:30pm)

Liberal Democrat Shadow Brexit Secretary Tom Brake launches 4 election poster vans in Westminster (10:00am) 

The Liberal Democrats make an announcement on proposals to increase the minimum wage and to implement more employment rights at work

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon launches her party's manifesto in Glasgow 

Scottish Greens co-leader Alison Johnstone launches a petition to re-open the train line linking Dunfermline to Alloa, Glasgow and the west in Culross. Mid Scotland and Fife MSP Mark Ruskell and Dunfermline and West Fife candidate Mags Hall also attend (10:30am) 

Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson speaks at the King’s Fund annual conference (4:15pm)

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage campaigns in Doncaster. Brexit Party candidate for Barnsley East Jim Ferguson, Brexit Party candidate for Don Valley Paul Whitehurst, Brexit Party candidate for Wentworth and Dearne Stephen Cavell and Brexit Party candidate for Barnsley Central Victoria Felton also attend

Media

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick appears on BBC Radio 4 Today (TBC) and LBC (8:20am)

Digital Minister Matt Warman appears on Sky News All Out Politics (9:00am) alongside co-leader of the Scottish Green Party Lorna Slater (9:45am) and SNP candidate for Glasgow East David Linden (TBC)

Conservative candidate for Wokingham John Redwood appears on (7:05am) TalkRADIO Julia Hartley-Brewer Show alongside Independent candidate for Beaconsfield Dominic Grieve (7:20am), Former Labour MP Ronnie Campbell (7:25am), Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick (8:05am), Liberal Democrat candidate for Kensington Sam Gyimah (9:05am) and Lord Michael Heseltine (9:25am) 

Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon appears on BBC Radio 4 Today (7:10am), Kay Burley @ Breakfast (7:30am) and LBC (7:50am) 

Liberal Democrat business spokesperson Sam Gyimah appears on BBC Radio 4 Today (8:30am) and LBC (9:45am)

Independent candidate for South West Hertfordshire David Gauke appears on ITV Peston alongside Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Labour candidate for Manchester Central Lucy Powell and SNP candidate for Ochil & South Perthshire John Nicolson (10:45pm)

SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford appears on BBC Breakfast (6:40am), ITV Good Morning Britain (7:05am), Sky News Kay Burley @ Breakfast (8:05am) and LBC Nick Ferrari at Breakfast (8:50am) 

SNP foreign affairs and EU spokesperson and candidate for Fife North East Stephen Gethins appears on BBC Radio 4 Today (8:10am)

SNP candidate for Glasgow Central Alison Thewliss appears on BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast (7:03am)

Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price appears on BBC Breakfast (7:10am)

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham appears on Kay Burley @ Breakfast (8:30am) 

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