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Working in partnerhip with Centre for British Politics @CBPH at Hull University, @MichaelLCrick, senior fellow, on party selections for winnable Commons seats.
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🟠 TORRIDGE & TAVISTOCK: Phil Hutty has been re-selected by the Lib Dems to fight this seat at the next general election, challenging the 3,950 (7.8%) Tory majority of former Attorney-General Sir Geoffrey Cox. Hutty worled for 30 years as a children and families social worker.
🟠 CAMBRIDGE: Cheney Payne was runner-up in Cambridge at the 2024 election when she got 8,536 votes (20.3%) - 11,078 (26.3%) behind Labour's Daniel Zeichner. Payne is assistant principal of Ernuff Academy in St Neot's. She has been a Cambridge city councillor since 2018.
🟠 CAMBRIDGE: Payne gained 114 votes to beat her nearest opponent Reetan Banerji overwhelmingly. Blaise Baquiche came third. Both Banerji and Baquiche were also beaten recently in the Lib Dems' first selection in this round, in Hampstead & Highgate.
🟠 CAMBRIDGE: Payne gained 114 votes to beat her nearest opponent Reetan Banerji overwhelmingly. Blaise Baquiche came third. Both Banerji and Baquiche were also beaten recently in the Lib Dems' first selection in this round, in Hampstead & Highgate.
🟠 CAMBRIDGE: Lib Dems have picked their second new candidate for next general election - Cheney Payne.
🟠 CAMBRIDGE: Lib Dems have picked their second new candidate for next general election - Cheney Payne.
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🟠HANPSTEAD & HIGHGATE: according to one source the main votes in the Lib Dem selection were: Katie Mansfield. 69 Patrick Stillman. 56 The other two contenders got much lower votes.
🟠 HAMPSTEAD & HIGHGATE: I'm told that Patrick Stillman came a close second. Can anyone DM me details please on the voting figures, and the order in which the candidates came?
🟠 HAMPSTEAD & HIGHGATE: I'm told that Patrick Stillman came a close second. Can anyone DM me details please on the voting figures, and the order in which the candidates came?
🟠 HAMPSTEAD & HIGHGATE: as I understand it, Mansfield is officially the candidate for the next general election only. If there's a by-election - quite likely given Tulip Sidiq's problems - then Lib Dem HQ reserve the right to select a different candidate for the by-election.
🟠 HAMPSTEAD & HIGHGATE: as I understand it, Mansfield is officially the candidate for the next general election only. If there's a by-election - quite likely given Tulip Sidiq's problems - then Lib Dem HQ reserve the right to select a different candidate for the by-election.
🟠 HAMPSTEAD & HIGHGATE: Richmond councillor Katie Mansfield picked as Lib Dem candidate for Ham & High at next general election.
🟠 HAMPSTEAD & HIGHGATE: Richmond councillor Katie Mansfield picked as Lib Dem candidate for Ham & High at next general election.
🟠 CAMBRIDGE: the other two Lib Dem contenders on the 3-strong shortlist are Blaise Baquiche and Reetendra Banerji who - strangely - are also contenders for the current Lib Dem selection in Hampstead & Highgate.
🟠 CAMBRIDGE: Can anyone DM me please with names of the other contenders?