{"id":335,"date":"2015-05-07T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T08:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/?p=335"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:58:11","slug":"careers-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/2015\/05\/07\/careers-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Careers in Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What other topic would we have for today's blog? If you do want to stand as an MP here are some facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You must be over 18 years of age, be a British citizen or citizen of a Commonwealth country or the Republic of Ireland<\/li>\n<li>Candidates must be nominated by ten parliamentary electors of the constituency they wish to stand in.<\/li>\n<li>Authorisation is required to stand for a specific party, otherwise candidates will be described as independent or have no description.<\/li>\n<li>A \u00a3500 deposit is required when submitting the nomination papers - returned if the candidate receives over five per cent of the total votes cast.<\/li>\n<li>Certain people are disqualified from standing as an MP - check the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoralcommission.org.uk\/i-am-a\/candidate-or-agent\" target=\"_blank\">Electoral Commission website <\/a>for further details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Standing as an MP is not the only way to be involved in Politics. For more ideas you should go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/students\/careers\/docs\/politics-guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">our information sheet.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What other topic would we have for today's blog? If you do want to stand as an MP here are some facts: You must be over 18 years of age, be a British citizen or citizen of a Commonwealth country...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":383,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[748],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}