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++ BREAKING NEWS ++ Lib Dem candidate for London Mayor revealed

By Mary Reid | Fri 11th August 2023 - 10:06 am

London Liberal Democrats have announced that Rob Blackie will be our candidate in the Mayoral elections next year.

Congratulations to Rob!

OK, so not quite the usual photo for a serious candidate, but we loved this photo of Rob with Hina Bokhari, London Assembly member. They had been Wombling on Wimbledon Common.

Rob grew up in Pimlico and now lives near Brixton in South London and runs his own business as an adviser to start-up tech companies.

Rob has been a life-long Lib Dem who served as Charles Kennedy’s Director of Research during the Iraq War. Since then he has been the London Assembly candidate for Lambeth and Southwark in 2012 and a Londonwide list candidate in 2016 and 2021.

You can read much more about him on his website, including his project that stands up to Russian censorship.

* Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still very active with the local party, and is the Hon President of Kingston Lib Dems.

Read more by Mary Reid .
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3 Comments

Paul Barker 11th Aug '23 - 11:56am

Could we have the full Results please ?
Mary Reid 11th Aug '23 - 2:23pm

@Paul Barker – well we would show them if we knew them. I don’t think they have been published yet.
Joe Bourke 11th Aug '23 - 2:43pm

Solid candidate. We will ne doing our best in the London of Borough of Hounslow to support Rob’s campaign.

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