On Monday 17th June, I took a stroll around Westminster, following the recent political stir headlining the news: the Conservative leadership contest and subsequent race to become the UK’s next Prime Minister. Although the streets weren’t packed with protestors, as they were for the People’s vote in March, there were clusters of demonstrators scattered around Parliament Square and opposite the Houses of Parliament. Some were more willing to speak to me than others; I asked a question to one man, who got halfway through his answer before noticing the small microphone on my collar and becoming belligerent and trying to remove it. I was actually speaking to another person when he interjected, so I carried on without asking for permission to record him. I restarted the initial interview and rounded off my afternoon by taking some photographs and heading to the nearest Pret.
documenting the untold