An energy consultant has been selected as Kingston Labour party's parliamentary candidate for the 2015 General Election.
Lee Godfrey was chosen to challenge energy secretary Edward Davey for the Kingston and Surbiton seat at a party meeting last night. Today, the 44-year-old from Weybridge told the Surrey Comet he believed constituents "deserved an MP with a backbone".
When he fought for Chertsey in the Surrey County Council elections in 2013 he was described as the 'one nation' candidate, finishing third behind a UKIP candidate and the winning Conservative and polling 27 percent of the votes. He also spoke at the Labour Party conference in 2012 speaking about food banks and representing the Runnymede and Weybridge wing of the party. According to the party's biography, he grew up in Hertfordshire and attended comprehensive Parmiter's School in Garston, near Watford. He also served in the Royal Navy upon leaving school, before studying operational research at Lancaster University. The site said he is now the director of a consultantcy business to the energy business, as well as a director of a company designing and supplying packaging to the cosmetic industry.
The Conservatives have yet to announce their candidate.
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