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parachuting in a candidate who by his team's own admission doesn't know anything about the constituency
I think that's something of an exaggeration. He lives ten miles down the road and was the CEO of Hartlepool's GPs.
Nothing like as egregious as the Blair years when they were parachuting in female candidates with no links to the area.
aggi
Yep, and while this is nothing unprecedented as far as Labour bureaucracy goes, the fact that the leadership are parachuting in a candidate who by his team's own admission doesn't know anything about the constituency leaves a particularly bitter taste. See the second to last paragraph here:
