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‘Insult to Wales’ as Labour parachutes two non-local candidates into safe seats
(left-right) Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner, at the launch event for Labour's campaign bus at Uxbridge College, while on the General Election campaign trail, June 1, 2024
LABOUR’S decision to parachute candidates into safe seats in Wales was branded a “gross insult” to voters and local party activists today.
Think tank chief and former Labour aide Torsten Bell and Alex Barros-Curtis, Labour’s executive director of legal affairs, were selected as candidates for Swansea West and Cardiff West on Friday.
Mr Bell appears to have no connection to the country, while Mr Barros-Curtis went to school in north Wales.
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