Plaid Cymru criticises selection of Welsh Tory election candidate who lives in Oxfordshire
Plaid Cymru criticises selection of Welsh Tory election candidate who lives in Oxfordshire
Martin Shipton A Plaid Cymru general election candidate has criticised his Conservative rival for living more than 100 miles away in Oxfordshire. Tory Jack Robson, who is standing in the Pontypridd constituency, has declared on his nomination papers that he lives at an address in the Banbury constit...
A Plaid Cymru general election candidate has criticised his Conservative rival for living more than 100 miles away in Oxfordshire.
Tory Jack Robson, who is standing in the Pontypridd constituency, has declared on his nomination papers that he lives at an address in the Banbury constituency.
But while Banbury, estimated to be 105 miles from Pontypridd, has been held continuously by the Conservatives since 1922, with MP Victoria Prentis securing a majority of nearly 17,000 at the last election in 2019, the situation is very different in Pontypridd, where the seat has been represented by a Labour MP, also since 1922.
In 2019 Labour’s Alex Davies-Jones was elected with a majority of 5,890 over Sam Trask, the Tory candidate. On July 4 Mr Trask was due to stand as the Conservative candidate in Bridgend, but pulled out after it emerged that he had posted lewd messages about women on the myfitnesspal website.