Julian Assange is a Commonwealth citizen who is not serving a term of imprisonment in the United Kingdom or in the Republic of Ireland.
As such, he is eligible to contest the Wakefield by-election.
Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
This would be the most famous by-election victory of all time.
ReplyDeleteEast of the Irish Sea, at least.
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