News from Westminster Labour

Conservative campaign in Westminster North “in meltdown”

Conservative Council candidates in Westminster’s Church Street ward have ditched their support for their parliamentary candidate in a last-gasp effort to shore up their declining support.

Voters in Church Street Ward have told Labour canvassers that the Conservatives have been trying to persuade voters to vote Conservative in the Council elections by telling them, “we know you are going to vote for Karen Buck and we think she is doing a good job, too. But in the Council elections, why not vote Conservative”.

And in Westbourne Ward the desperate Conservatives are telling voters that residents’ long-standing problems with poor housing are because the area is represented by Labour Councillors, conveniently forgetting that Westminster has been controlled by the Conservatives since 1965!

Councillor Paul Dimoldenberg, Leader of the Labour Group, said: “The Conservative campaign in Westminster North is in meltdown, with their Council candidates distancing themselves from their parliamentary candidate and the Council in a hopeless effort to try to win support. The Conservatives know that their parliamentary candidate has little support in Labour areas and they don’t want to be dragged down by her. Everyone knows that Karen Buck has done a fantastic job and now, unbelievably, the Conservatives are trying to use Karen’s fine Parliamentary record to try to persuade voters to vote Conservative in the Council elections! The Conservative campaign must be in a desperate mess.

“The Labour campaign in Westminster North is going from strength to strength with previously undecided voters and Liberal Democrats pledging their support for Karen Buck.”

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