Reading Lib Dems in Turmoil as Candidate Quits
Reading Lib Dems have been thrown into further turmoil as their Reading West Parliamentary candidate has announced that he is quitting. Oxford Councillor Patrick Murray had been criticised for being an invisible candidate but now that he is gone Reading Lib Dems face running a new selection process just months before an expected General Election.
After Labour’s selection of “gaffe prone” Waltham Forest Councillor Naz Sarkar, things could hardly look better for Conservative candidate Alok Sharma.
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Richard is a Conservative Councillor on Reading Borough Council representing Peppard ward since 2007, having been re-elected in May 2011. He previously represented Thames ward from 2001 to 2004. He is currently the Conservative Shadow Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning and Transport on Reading Borough Council. Richard stood for Parliament in Sutton and Cheam in 2005 and from 2005-2008 was Chief of Staff to Rob Wilson MP (Reading East). He has a wide range of media appearances under his belt including Newsnight, Channel 4 News and BBC Radio.
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This reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Lisa has to interview Mr Burns…”Why are you so popular?”…
complacency alert! complacency alert!
I thought he had been quiet!I guess its the commuting from Oxford which presumably had a drain on his energy and enthusiam.
I think you could have left out the word ‘expected’—–even Nu Labour with the unelected Mandleson, who is undoubtably the most powerful man in Britain, will not be able to avoid that,
First Salter, now Murray, what is happening?
http://greenreading.blogspot.com/2009/08/libdem-reading-west-ppc-patrick-murray.html