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We NORTH SHROPSHIRE CLP PRESS RELEASE
Members of North Shropshire CLP welcome Keir Starmer as the new Leader of the Party. We look forward to him leading us as a Party through the current difficult national situation and on into the next election. Members who attended the West Midlands Hustings in Dudley last month and met the candidates were pleased to see the comradely way in which all 3 candidates conducted themselves, as they did throughout the campaign now ended. We welcome new and former members to join us in the fight to return Labour to power.
We have been asked why we lost some votes in North Shropshire in the December election: but we remain in a clear second place - the only challenger to the sitting Tory MP. Brexit clearly played a part in this, although what was seen as a lack of clarity around how.our policies would be funded also contributed. We are sure Keir will be very popular on the doorsteps in North Shropshire, and we look forward to campaigning hard in the 2021 Shropshire elections. Among issues which we shall be addressing are ongoing improvements to health and social care, rural transport, housing/homelessness and planning.
Graeme Currie Labour's candidate in North Shropshire in the recent General Election commented "I welcome the election of Keir Starmer as Labour Party Leader. He is a person who has spent his life fighting injustice and standing up to the powerful. He is committed to Labour's radical tradition of fighting for fairness and equality. In these dark times of local, national and global health emergency we need politics to be about sharing, respect and integrity. Keir Starmer will bring people together and he is someone that the country can trust. I believe he is the the right Leader at the right time for the Labour Party to unite behind. The Labour Party with Keir Starmer as Leader is ready to build another future."
We also welcome Angela Rayner, who we also nominated, as the Party's new Deputy Leader, in which she will be a great role model.
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Sadly the result of the 2019 General Election was:
Conservative 35,444 (62.7%)
Labour 12,495 (22.1%)
Lib-Dem 5,643 (10.0%)
Green 1,790 (3.2%)
Ind (Shropshire Party) 1,141 (2.0%)
Graeme Currie says "Devastated - Proud - We will dust ourselves down and fight on" CLP Members are sad, but proud of Graeme's campaign, holding on, despite being able to start campaigning so late, as we had warned the national Party, to most of our vote and still the only challenger to Paterson.
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Constituency Map, with Branch and Ward Boundaries
There are no proposals to change our boundaries in the present boundary review of constituencies (apparently never ending since September 2016!) The Eastern Branch name was changed to North East Shropshire in October 2017 - the map now reflects this. (The correct name of the NW Ward is "Gobowen, Selattyn & Weston Rhyn" but we cannot edit the text in the Electoral Commission map!) We are currently awaiting approval of a third Branch, based on Wem.
Members of North Shropshire CLP welcome Keir Starmer as the new Leader of the Party. We look forward to him leading us as a Party through the current difficult national situation and on into the next election. Members who attended the West Midlands Hustings in Dudley last month and met the candidates were pleased to see the comradely way in which all 3 candidates conducted themselves, as they did throughout the campaign now ended. We welcome new and former members to join us in the fight to return Labour to power.
We have been asked why we lost some votes in North Shropshire in the December election: but we remain in a clear second place - the only challenger to the sitting Tory MP. Brexit clearly played a part in this, although what was seen as a lack of clarity around how.our policies would be funded also contributed. We are sure Keir will be very popular on the doorsteps in North Shropshire, and we look forward to campaigning hard in the 2021 Shropshire elections. Among issues which we shall be addressing are ongoing improvements to health and social care, rural transport, housing/homelessness and planning.
Graeme Currie Labour's candidate in North Shropshire in the recent General Election commented "I welcome the election of Keir Starmer as Labour Party Leader. He is a person who has spent his life fighting injustice and standing up to the powerful. He is committed to Labour's radical tradition of fighting for fairness and equality. In these dark times of local, national and global health emergency we need politics to be about sharing, respect and integrity. Keir Starmer will bring people together and he is someone that the country can trust. I believe he is the the right Leader at the right time for the Labour Party to unite behind. The Labour Party with Keir Starmer as Leader is ready to build another future."
We also welcome Angela Rayner, who we also nominated, as the Party's new Deputy Leader, in which she will be a great role model.
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Sadly the result of the 2019 General Election was:
Conservative 35,444 (62.7%)
Labour 12,495 (22.1%)
Lib-Dem 5,643 (10.0%)
Green 1,790 (3.2%)
Ind (Shropshire Party) 1,141 (2.0%)
Graeme Currie says "Devastated - Proud - We will dust ourselves down and fight on" CLP Members are sad, but proud of Graeme's campaign, holding on, despite being able to start campaigning so late, as we had warned the national Party, to most of our vote and still the only challenger to Paterson.
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Constituency Map, with Branch and Ward Boundaries
There are no proposals to change our boundaries in the present boundary review of constituencies (apparently never ending since September 2016!) The Eastern Branch name was changed to North East Shropshire in October 2017 - the map now reflects this. (The correct name of the NW Ward is "Gobowen, Selattyn & Weston Rhyn" but we cannot edit the text in the Electoral Commission map!) We are currently awaiting approval of a third Branch, based on Wem.
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