At headquarters there were just a couple of people who had any deeper experience than running a constituency campaign – yet had hugely important roles with national influence.
Previously, he ran a constituency campaign during the 2010 general election, worked in the Westminster offices of both Martin Horwood MP and Jenny Willott MP, and worked in the Liberal Democrat policy unit.
She gave up her career to run his constituency office.
Cox was killed on Thursday lunchtime outside Birstall public library, where she had been planning to run a constituency surgery.
(Political husbands are still very much the exception to the rule: Caroline Flint, the Labour MP for Don Valley, employs her husband Phil Cole to run her constituency office, while Margaret Beckett's spouse, Leo, has been her parliamentary assistant for years).
In addition, members will get a €50,424 annual allowance to run a constituency office (though some don't have one), attendance allowances of €298 a day, and top-up travel expenses worth hundreds of euros a week: no receipts are needed.
This means AMs could run as constituency and regional candidates.
Ms MacLaren runs the constituency office of Transport Minister Derek Mackay, while Mr MacLaren is a researcher for SNP MSP Stuart McMillan.
Six members of the same family in Haute-Loire in central France are running in constituencies in different parts of the county – some of them many miles from their homes.
It's easy to forget that most MPs are mostly doing their regular jobs: running their constituencies, chiefly through holding "surgeries" once a week, opening their doors to the British public and dealing with their concerns face-to-face.
