Crick documents the identities and career paths of the men and women being shortlisted as parliamentary candidates
October 29, 2023 6:00 amFor more than 18 months, he has been relentlessly documenting the identities and career paths of the men and women being shortlisted as parliamentary candidates by the main parties for an election that has not even be called yet.
He is an inveterate political mischief-maker. “The party machines hate me”, he concedes. Labour is angry at his detailing of its purge on left-wingers and lack of working-class candidates. The Conservatives are “very upset” with his exposure of their opaque practices. “Every time the Tories end upthey have only got themselves to blame,” he says. “It’s an absolute formula for crooked and third-rate MPs.
An “obsession” among party activists for fielding local candidates is diluting the talent pool, he believes. “It reduces competition and means that ambitious politicians have to choose to stand where they were born or where they live.”are women and that Labour’s list has an acute shortage of black men. “Gay candidates are doing extraordinarily well in both parties,” he says, more optimistically.. He is a biographer of era-defining politicians from Arthur Scargill to Nigel Farage.
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