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Campaign diary

5 July 2001

  • Courted by candidates

    David Cameron, the Conservative MP for Witney, finds most of his week is taken up by overtures from the leadership candidates, but he does find time to make his maiden speech. Only to be told by his mum he looks like Peter Mandelson.

21 June 2001

  • How to miss the Queen's speech

    David Cameron, the new MP for Witney, explains who he will vote for in the Conservative leadership contest and how he managed to miss his first Queen's speech.

11 June 2001

  • Election success at last

    After seven years on the candidates list, one election defeat in 1997, and 14 months as the prospective candidate for Witney, David Cameron finally gets to add MP to his name.

5 June 2001

  • The battle of the balloons

    In his last diary of the election, the Conservative candidate for Witney, David Cameron, apologises to his Labour opponent, loses the Morris dancing vote and wins the gypsy vote.

4 June 2001

  • Swept off his feet

    In the home stretch, Labour's PPC in Lewes Paul Richards completes his task during the PM's visit to Brighton with aplomb, gets the sitting MP to lose his rag and - daringly - looks ahead to election night.

1 June 2001

  • Definitely winning the 11-year-old vote

    In her third week of campaigning in Cardiff Central, Lib Dem PPC Jenny Willott turns 27 at the local bookie's, finds herself an object of worship by the pre-pubescent set and keeps her fingers permanently crossed.

31 May 2001

  • The wrong shaped constituency

    In Doncaster Central, Labour's Rosie Winterton discovers the real reason for her constituency being targeted by the Socialist Alliance and ponders the mystery of voting intention decisions.

30 May 2001

  • Insured against boredom

    In Sunderland South, Conservative PPC Jim Boyd gets international press exposure, counts his lucky stars that he has election insurance and is welcomed into the arms of the nation's oldest Conservative Club.

29 May 2001

  • Four steps to disaster

    Conservative candidate in Witney David Cameron reveals his key strategy for surviving the election campaign: avoiding meltdown despite the best efforts of rival candidates, friends and the national press.

28 May 2001

  • Local lords on the doorstep

    Labour's candidate in Lewes, Paul Richards, spends his third week of the campaign tripping over peers and recovering from candidate's sunburn.

25 May 2001

  • Emergency: we need more stationery!

    In her second week of campaigning, Jenny Willott, the Liberal Democrat candidate for Cardiff Central, demonstrates over the treatment of asylum seekers, supports ethnic minorities, and risks her life for democracy by driving around Cardiff with a car full of balloons.

24 May 2001

  • Storm in a cappucino cup

    Campaigning in Sunderland South, Conservative Jim Boyd lambasts sitting MP Chris Mullin for toeing the New Labour line and squandering an opportunity to talk about the real issues

23 May 2001

  • Reality check

    Before entering the Commons in 1997, Rosie Winterton was John Prescott's chief of staff. Out canvassing for re-election in Doncaster Central, she is supportive of the Rumble in Rhyl, but would prefer to kick the Conservative stance on asylum out of the ring.

22 May 2001

  • Electoral rapport

    May 22: As he enters his second week of campaigning in Witney, Conservative candidate David Cameron finds a cause into which to channel his energies while trying to shift local discussion off Shaun Woodward.

21 May 2001

  • Taxis, trains and tactical voting

    Labour's candidate in Lewes gives us the lowdown after a hard week on the campaign trail.

18 May 2001

  • More than your average candidate

    With a little help from Sir Paddy Ashdown, the profile of Jenny Willott, the Liberal Democrat candidate in Labour-held Cardiff Central, has shot up. She explains why, and how her first week of campaigning has gone.

17 May 2001

  • Not so grim in Sunderland South

    May 17: Conservative Jim Boyd is making his general election debut with a huge fight on his hands - he is up against the popular MP, Chris Mullin, in the extremely safe Labour seat of Sunderland South. He describes his first week of campaigning.

16 May 2001

  • Dulcet days in Doncaster

    Standing in safe Doncaster Central, Labour candidate Rosie Winterton worries about typos in her leaflets and people too apathetic to vote, but finds her constituency - the birthplace of the Labour party - generally supportive.

15 May 2001

  • Lasting the election

    May 15: The election has finally been called and David Cameron, the Conservative candidate in Witney, has flown out of the starting blocks. But, he muses, a lot can happen in the next 23 days

14 May 2001

  • Tactical target

    Paul Richards, Labour's candidate in the Lib Dem constituency of Lewes, battles trains, tombolas and Tories - as well as three members of his party who tell the press that they'll be voting for a rival.
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