A General Election debate will take place tonight at Unipart Conference Centre in Garsington Road, Cowley, at 7pm.

The public are welcome at the free hustings event organised by The Federation of Small Businesses.

Candidates for the Oxford East constituency are Labour MP Andrew Smith, Melanie Magee (Conservative), and Ann Duncan (Green).

UKIP candidate Ian Macdonald is unable to attend because of ill health. John Howson, the Lib Dem candidate for Banbury, will stand in for Alastair Murray, who cannot attend.

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