Friday and Saturday are constituency days: on a Friday I normally have two or three visits [to a local school or charity or business], a two-hour surgery of around 10 to 15-minute sessions helping constituents with difficult problems, and a lot of letter signing, diary and local campaign planning with my secretary, often with a speaking engagement in the evening.
On Monday constituencies in the restive north-east of the country will vote.
Friday 15 July A constituency day, driving across my 200 square miles.
Day 6 | 24 April | 117 constituencies The second biggest day.
Calm after the emotional rollercoaster of a political week culminating in my Friday evening constituency advice surgery in Twickenham.
Monday His constituency chairman, Geoffrey Vero, says the minister privately told him of concerns that the Church of England could be sued over gay marriage reforms.
Day 4 | 12 April | 7 constituencies North-east again – more in Assam, plus all of Sikkim and the rest of Tripura – and Goa's two seats Day 5 | 17 April | 121 constituencies The biggest day.
Day 7 | 30 April | 89 constituencies All of Modi's powerbase state of Gujarat, plus all of Punjab, a large part of Andhra Pradesh, and more seats in Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, and the two seats in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu.
The Labour leader said he had raised the issue with the party's national executive committee, but said also that one issue was that "the day-to-day culture of constituency parties is often very wooden".
By early afternoon on Thursday, some constituencies, particularly in the volatile northern state of Uttar Pradesh, a key political battleground, were recording turnouts already approaching 50%.
