Gay Rights Leader Seeks Seat In UK Parliament
April 26, 2007 on 3:48 pm | In Gay News |
>(London)Â Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell is hoping to become the first Green Party Member of Parliament.
>Tatchell has won the party nomination to run in the riding of Oxford East, currently held by Labor’s Andrew Smith.
>Smith was elected by a slim majority and is considered vulnerable.
>Oxford is considered one of the most likely ridings to elect a Green candidate. Eleven members of the local council are party members.
>It is not Tatchell’s first foray into politics. Twenty years ago he ran for the Labor Party in London and lost.
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