PPC update: Milton Keynes North / Harborough

Jill Hope has been selected to run in Milton Keynes North, which presumably ends a long-running and at times extraordinary selection contest in Harborough.

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  • chris_nelson 18th Dec '06 - 7:19pm

    I’ve come across Jill in my goings-on in Northamptonshire and I have been impressed with what I have seen. MK North have just got themselves a good PPC.

  • Why is Jill not standing again in Harborough? Surely, that was the more winnable seat?

  • I have to echo Edis’s words. Its a real shame Hane could not stand again, she has been and will continue to be a great campainer here in Milton Keynes. I have not met Jill but am sure that MK membership have got us a good PPC for the North.
    We still have the South seat to fill and I am one of the few considering taking that on…although I can be persuaded otherwise!

  • As Jill’s Agent in 2001 I can tell you that you are getting an excellent, hard working candidate. In my view she is a loss to Harborough, although I entirely understand why she would want to contest a constituency just over the border from where she lives. I dread to think how much time Jill has spent travelling along the M1 in the last 6 years!

    Harborough owes Jill a huge debt of thanks. In 2001 with Jill as out candidate, we were able to bounce back from the disappointing 1997 result and re-establish the Lib Dems as the only challengers to the Tory MP. In 2005 Jill cut his majority to its lowest for 50 years – even with the extra focus in Leics to try and hold the by-election gain in neighbouring Leicester South.

  • Southwark Man 20th Dec '06 - 9:10am

    I see Labour have selected Andrew Pakes – what could Parliament possibly need more than another former NUS president? He says he’ll be moving to the constituency, so presumably will be standing down from Southwark Council soon.

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