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Marvin Rees makes first mayor campaign video

By Bristol24/7  Wednesday Jun 10, 2015

The race to become Bristol’s next mayor is starting to gain momentum.

Incumbent mayor George Ferguson has already announced that he will be fighting for a second term and another independent candidate, Avonmouth engineer Laurence Duncan, is crowdfunding for his own independent campaign.

No announcements have yet been made from the Tories and Lib Dems as to who their runner will be but it is thought that the Green Party candidate is likely to be their Bristol West parliamentary candidate Darren Hall.

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In the Labour camp, assistant mayor Mark Bradshaw and 2012’s mayoral election runner-up Marvin Rees will be slugging it out for their party’s official nomination.

Rees is out of the starting blocks first with this first campaign video shot on Stapleton Road railway station:

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