The absurd rumour that Mark Matlock, the ReformUK candidate, did not exist but was created by AI continues to circulate on social media.
In the meantime, despite what the Green candidate was reported as saying, it seems that there was no hustings at which he didn’t turn up and to which we were not invited.
I think by “hustings” she must have meant the count. In this case, she would have been using the word hustings in its original sense, since in the days before the introduction of the secret ballot in 1872 MPs were nominated and elected at hustings.