Labour selects candidate for Chipping Barnet

Dan Tomlinson was selected at a meeting of local party members on Wednesday
By David Floyd

Labour candidate for Chipping Barnet, Dan Tomlinson

The Labour Party has selected its candidate for the Chipping Barnet constituency at the 2024 election.

Dan Tomlinson was selected at a meeting of local party members on Wednesday – ahead of local councillor Emma Whysall. He is currently principal policy adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and was previously a councillor in Tower Hamlets.

Emma was the party’s candidate at the past two elections: coming within 353 votes of defeating sitting MP Theresa Villiers in 2017 with the party’s best ever result in the constituency – and losing again by 1,212 votes in 2019.

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Chipping Barnet has been a Conservative seat since its creation in 1974 however it has become increasingly marginal in recent years and the fact that Labour lost so narrowly in 2019 – in an election where the party did so badly overall – suggests another difficult contest for Theresa in 2024.

Posting on Twitter following the selection Dan said: “Chipping Barnet is overdue a Labour MP. And Britain is overdue a Labour government. Time to make it happen.”

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