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A THREE-TIME Labour candidate in North Shropshire said that the party allowed the Lib Dems to take the seat in last week’s by-election after he was prevented from standing due to his support for Palestinian rights.
Graeme Currie, who contested the seat for Labour in 2015, 2017 and 2019 — finishing second on each occasion — has shared his disgust at the party’s approach to the seat which swung away from the Tories in last week’s vote.
The by-election, which was called amid the Tories’ Owen Paterson sleaze saga, saw the Liberal Democrats’ Helen Morgan win a seat in the House of Commons as the Conservative vote dropped by 31 per cent.
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