Bracknell Conservatives have short-listed no fewer than seven candidates to go through to an Open Primary* on October 17th. They are:
- Iain Dale
- Margaret Doyle
- Philip Lee
- Katy Lindsay
- Julia Manning
- Ryan Robson
- Rory Stewart
Further biographical details of the seven will follow.
It's intriguing that the association has been allowed to include a split of four men and three women, given that CCHQ rules state that at least 50% of the candidates being considered at each stage must be female.
Tim reported last week the concerns of some about the failure of the local council leader to make the shortlist.
Jonathan Isaby
* Douglas Carswell recently took me to task for describing as an Open Primary the kind of meeting which followers of US politics would recognise as an Open Caucus, and I began describing these meetings as Open Caucuses in my posts here. However, I gather that my change in nomenclature caused panic and confusion among candidates - not least because the meetings open to all electors in a constituency are defined as Open Primaries in the party rulebook. As such, I am reluctantly returning to describing them in those terms here.