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East of the Irish Sea, has there ever before been a set of local elections at which not a single candidate was elected unopposed? Yet that will be the case on Thursday, when the average number of candidates per ward will be six, and the average number of parties will be five. Parties. Five. On average. And no one, anywhere, elected unopposed.
Such is the utterly changed polity in which Ben Habib has let it be known that he did not intend to lead his new party, hinting at the sitting MP Rupert Lowe, but that Stephen Yaxley-Lennon would be welcome to join it. A party with Yaxley-Lennon as a member in good standing is set to be launched on the floor of the House of Commons.
They gave Catherine Blaiklock all of 171 votes.
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