McVey selected for Tatton
She defeated Katherine Fletcher and Cllr Alex Williams outright on the first round of voting.
She defeated Katherine Fletcher and Cllr Alex Williams outright on the first round of voting.
Shortlists for Wirral West, Ealing Central & Acton, Chorley and Bristol East. And selection results in Blackpool South, Darlington and Eltham.
Continuing our ConservativeHome series on the key contests in each region or nation.
Labour won the constituency by 1,138 votes in 2015 and by 42 in 2010, so this is unquestionably a target seat.
Zac Goldsmith, Luke Parker and Laura Farris will fight it out tomorrow night.
Alex Burghart, the Prime Minister’s social justice adviser, completes the trio.
The Deputy Leader of the Conservative group on the London Assembly joins the contest for the hotly-anticipated London marginal.
“It is untenable for us to play any further role in an organisation, such as Open Britain, which is advocating campaigning against Conservative MPs or candidates.”
Plus details of selections in Clwyd South, Delyn, Wrexham, Moray, West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine, and more.
Shaun Bailey AM, Councillor Julia Dockerill, and Simon Jones are in the running to succeed Dame Angela Watkinson.
The former Wirral West MP and Minister for Employment completes the shortlist, alongside Katherine Fletcher and Cllr Alex Williams.
We open a ConservativeHome series, which will run each Monday during the election campaign, on the key contests in each region
Plus: shortlists for Middlesbrough South and Wakefield; and, new selections and nominations in key target seats across the country.
A last-minute rejig of the nominations by the leadership saw a new name put forward.
The Association told CCHQ they wanted him, but the central party declined to put him on the shortlist. Ping-pong could ensue.