More diverse, more Brexity, more Corbynite
is pounding the streets of Ilford South with an army of Labour activists. The party’s nomination for the safe London seat became free earlier this year after the sitting, Mike Gapes, defected to another party in despair at Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. Mr Tarry, a trade unionist, got his first taste of politics campaigning outside his predecessor’s office against the Iraq war. Mr Gapes “is a warmonger—people in Ilford still haven’t forgiven him for that,” he claims.
Mr Tarry is representative of the kind of politician who will be arriving on the Labour benches. Gone are the management consultants and solicitors, with 45% of the party’s new candidates in these vacated seats coming from trade-union backgrounds. In Birkenhead the regional secretary of the Unite union, Mick Whitley, is replacing Frank Field, who is running as an independent. “Frank walked away from the party,” says Mr Whitley. “I’m totally opposed to his politics.
Both parties have put forward more women, who made up 25 of those stepping down but who number 44 of the candidates running in their place. British Future, a think-tank, finds that if all parties win the same seats as in 2017, there will be 67 ethnic-minorityUnlike Labour, and in spite of their pursuit of blue-collar voters, the Tories have picked most of their candidates from professional backgrounds.
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