South Derbyshire selects experienced campaigner as parliamentary candidate

Originally posted @ 7:55 pm, Fri 27th Jun 2008

Labour members in South Derbyshire have selected Michael Edwards to be their candidate at the next general election.

Michael Edwards said: “Labour members ambition for the communities of South Derbyshire shone at the selection meeting. I share that ambition and I am proud to be following in the footsteps of Mark Todd who is an excellent MP.

Mark Todd passed on his praise for the newly elected candidate: “I know Michael well. He has been active in South Derbyshire since 1992 and is well known and well respected. I will be working with him to get Labour’s message across at the next election.”

“Michael is a proven winner, having won 5 closely fought elections. “