Archive for Selection news
Liberal Democrats decide to pass up on fighting Police Commissioner elections (mostly)
The Liberal Democrat Federal Executive (FE) decided this week that the federal party will not be providing any financial backing to Liberal Democrats wishing to stand for election as Police Commissioners. The expectation is that instead the party will end up backing independent candidates, although it has been made clear that local areas can decide [...]
Timetable for selecting London Mayor candidate published
Readers of the week’s Liberal Democrat News will have seen the advert kicking off the party’s candidate selection for the Mayor of London. The planned timetable is: June 17 Close of applications July 3 Interviews and shortlisting July 11 Deadline for appeals July 11 Deadline for candidates to submit manifestos July 12 Publication of shortlist [...]
Who will be the Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor?
Yesterday London Region chair Jonathan Fryer outlined the timetable for selecting the party’s London Assembly and Mayor candidates. But who will be in the running to be the Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London? As previously covered, Lembit Opik has publicly declared his intention to go for the selection. Regular readers of this site will [...]
Lembit for London campaign watch
Contradictory news from Facebook about the state of Lembit Opik’s campaign to become the Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor. The number of fans of his campaign page is now up to 178. However, although his campaign says the page is “the main point of contact for those involved in the campaign to win the [...]
Lembit for London campaign watch
Lembit Opik’s plans to run for London Mayor have been widely trailed for some time and the man himself has taken steps such as a lengthy interview on London’s LBC radio station with Conservative blogger Iain Dale. His campaign for the Liberal Democrat selection has provoked many negative responses from Liberal Democrat members (such as [...]
Female MPs: how’s the party doing?
We’ve twice covered the question of gender balance in (Westminster) politics in recent days with the challenge from the Fawcett Society What about women? and Dinti Batstone’s call to Make politics fit women’s lives, not vice-versa.
With party conference in Birmingham about to start, we now have the latest figures on how the party is doing at getting [...]
Forthcoming Parliamentary selections
No listing this month as there are no selections currently planned to close during February (except for one which closed at 5pm today).
But for further details on how you could become a Liberal Democrat prospective candidate see http://libdems4parliament.org.uk.
Two Conservative councillors switch; new Norfolk candidate selected
Welcome to Canncok Councillors Keith and Diane Bennett, who have switched from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats, and congratulations to Dan Roper who has been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Broadland. Nich Starling says of him:
I am so pleased that my local Lib Dem candidate is genuinely the sort of person I [...]
Congratulations to…
Daisy Benson – selected for Reading West
Richard Gadsden – selected for Worsley and Eccles South
Martin Land – selected for Hungtingdon
Good luck one and all.
Forthcoming candidate selections
Courtesy of the LibDems4Parliament website, here is the list of candidate selections closing this month:
Montgomeryshire – Prospective Welsh Assembly Candidate (02 Jan 2010)
High Peak – PPC (08 Jan 2010)
Battersea – PPC (18 Jan 2010)
Tooting – PPC (18 Jan 2010)
Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire – Prospective Scottish Parliamentary Candidate (22 Jan 2010)
For further details on how you could [...]
