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Fears have been raised of a post-election 'House of Cronies' after both main parties put forward allies of their leaders and children of former MPs as candidates.
Political parties are rushing to fill seats before candidate nominations close on Friday.
Connor Knight, 21 of New Road, Grays appeared at Basildon Crown Court on Wednesday where he was sentenced
In basildon and billericay in essex, which, as luck would have it for mr holden, is one of the safest conservative seats around. so yeah, so that's that. and then we fast forward 2a hours to today as we record on thursday and zoom to the other end of the uk to aberdeenshire and another high profile conservative, douglas ross, who i think i'm right in saying was the first conservative, maybe even the first mp in the last parliament to say he would stand down at the election who are suddenly decided with hours to spare that no he won't, and that it actually stand in an aberdeenshire seat, which ...
Because there was real anger amongst local conservatives in basildon and billericay where the party structures, as far as it can be seen locally, are seen to be sort of imposing chosen voices on them. and we've seen similar in labour. and we talked a lot about it with labour last week. you know, the blue suits who worked for keir starmer, some of them turning into red princes who then end up in, you know, safe plum seats for the party and being imposed in the last minute. and it does really hack off local parties, no question. i mean, there was a local tory councillor said about richard holden...