If you were a journalist in 2018 when Mark Reckless gave up his Conservative Rochester and Strood seat to re-run for the seat as a UKIP MP, you would probably have asked the same question.
At least, that’s what Laura’s colleagues at Channel 5 did on that fateful day, when all of a sudden, the faraway lands of Medway (32 miles from Channel 5’s newsroom, in fact) were the talk of the town.
In her guest-appearance for The Political Medway, an independent, non-partisan website covering politics within Medway, Laura makes the argument that the limited access (and thus, dire lack of diversity) in the media not only looks bad – it keeps the media from properly reporting to the people it serves.