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Rees-Mogg in Kingswood to help Tory by-election campaign
Jacob Rees-Mogg has joined the Conservative candidate for the Kingswood by-election on the campaign trail.
Sam Bromiley, a councillor for Parkwall & Warmley and the leader of the Conservative group on South Glos Council, will be defending the seat for the Tories on February 15.
Bromiley, who lives in Longwell Green, is a former youth worker who was the office manager and constituency secretary of ex Kingswood MP Chris Skidmore for seven years, and who is currently policy & external affairs manager at Helplines Partnership.
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The only other candidate announced so far is Labour’s Damien Egan, the former mayor of Lewisham in London who is hoping to overturn a Tory majority of 11,220.
The Green Party are voting on Wednesday for a candidate, with the choice between Lorraine Francis and Siân Harris; while the Lib Dems have yet to reveal their challenger.
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Bromiley said: “I am honoured to have been selected to represent the area I grew up in and where I have lived all my life.
“I am committed to serving our local area, by growing our local economy, protecting our green spaces, and giving people the tools and the choice to work hard and achieve.
“I have lived here my whole life, first in Hanham and now Longwell Green.
“If I am elected, I will work hard to stop Labour’s disastrous plan to build on the greenbelt.
“I want to work with our local community rather than imposing further unwanted developments upon them.
“This area has always been my home and I want to deliver for my community by bringing more investment, supporting our small businesses, and protecting our green spaces.”
Chairman of the Conservative Party, Richard Holden, who also joined North East Somerset MP Rees-Mogg over the weekend in Kingswood, a constituency that will no longer exist at the next general election, said that Bromiley “will make a fantastic Conservative candidate”.
Holden said: “He is born and bred local, and he knows that people deserve a local MP who stands up for them.
“This by-election is a choice: a lifelong local campaigner who will stand up for local people, support local businesses, and protect key local greenbelt or the Labour Party that has already demonstrated their contempt for local people by selecting a sitting mayor from the London borough of Lewisham, over 120 miles away from Kingswood.
“The only way to guarantee an MP who will deliver for Kingswood, and protect the local area, is by voting Conservative and voting for Sam Bromiley.”
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