Stratford Upon Avon Shortlist

ConservativeHome has got the jump on everyone it seems (I am just trying to confirm this through the association) and has posted the Shortlist for the forthcoming selection of a new PPC for Stratford Upon Avon. Shamelessly lifted directly from them is the list below (with links to their sites / blogs that I've found so far)

Lucy Allan 

Former - Workplace Law Ltd, Freelance Employment Law Adviser

Current - Self-employed employment law adviser

Councillor in Wandsworth since 2006

Victoria Atkins

Current - Criminal Barrister

Lots of political experience been involved in four General Elections

Father Sir Robert Atkins MEP

Alice Barnard

Former - Account Director and shareholder, Building on Business 

Current - Regional Director of the Eastern Region, Countryside Alliance

Joined in 2007

Georgina Butler 

Former - British Consul Tangier

Philip Seccombe 

Former - Chestertons - Partner in London and Birmingham

Current - Seccombes, Chartered Surveyors, Founder and Senior Partner

Chairman of Stratford-on-Avon Association

Councillor on Stratford-on-Avon Council since 2002

Nadhim Zahawi

Former - European Marketing Director, Smith and Brooks Ltd

Current - Co-founder and CEO of YouGov

PPC - Erith and Thamesmead 1997

Councillor in Wandsworth 1994 - 2006

Come 19th of February one of these will be the new Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Stratford Upon Avon.

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ConservativeHome has revealed the shortlisting process that CCHQ will be using to provide the Stratford Upon Avon Conservative Association with a shortlist of candidates to select from.

Eric Pickles, Party Chairman will be given a primary role within it, with no role at all for outgoing local MP John Maples.

The process according to ConservativeHome will be as follows:

• Any candidate on the candidates’ list who wishes to express an interest in the seat will be invited to do so in an email to Gareth Fox, of the Candidates’ Department at CCHQ.
• Eric Pickles will conduct an initial sift;
• A panel of Eric Pickles, Patrick McLoughlin, who is the opposition Chief Whip, and Jeremy Middleton, Chairman of the National Conservative Convention, will draw up the final shortlist for the association;
• The shortlist will be passed to the association for them to select the candidate.

There’s no word from ConservativeHome on how long the shortlist will be, but I have heard from my sources that the rules stipulate that it must be a shortlist of at least 3, and that in reality the list is expected to be larger than that.

I also know that there’s a meeting at Trinity Street (Stratford Conservative HQ) this morning and I’m sure the local selection process from the shortlist will be discussed. As soon as I know more on what we’ll be doing locally I’ll update.

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