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Can a tent festival reinvigorate politics?
Politics Live reporter Greg Dawson decided to take the writer, Ellie Mae O'Hagan, along to a politics festival organised by a Conservative MP.
The Big Tent Ideas Festival is designed to appeal to non-politicians and looks towards reviving centrism.
Ellie Mae O'Hagan, who is also a Jeremy Corbyn supporter, was cynical ahead of the event where she met Conservative MPs Justine Greening and George Freeman.
