Derby North PPC Lucy Care answers questions from NUS students

Lucy Care

The National Union of Students is questioning candidates across the country via the medium of Twitter as part of its build up to next year's General Election.

The idea is that they will take one marginal seat at a time and ask each of its candidates a series of ten questions. The candidates will then tweet their replies. The first such event took place last Wednesday involving the candidates from Derby North, including our own Lucy Care. Tackling the subject of tuition fees in 140 characters and doing it justice was quite a challenge but Lucy managed it.

There were also questions about how the NHS, welfare and how the candidates engaged with students and what they thought would improve the night-time economy. I've made a Storify thingy of Lucy's questions and answers. Here it is:

* Caron Lindsay is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings