🔴 SOUTHGATE & WOOD GREEN: Bambos Charalambous has had the Labour whip restored after an investigation, so presumably he will be candidate for this seat.

Other parties do similar. Candidates are increasingly bullied by their parties, and in the case of Tories, forced to pay large sums for all sorts of things, including being on the candidates' list. No wonder decreasing numbers want to do the job.

🔴The I paper reported today of Labour candidates, that

🔴 ELY & EAST CAMBRIDGESHIRE (Lab target 259): Elizabeth McWilliams picked as Labour candidate.

🔵SUTTON & CHEAM (Con 270th safest): new candidate Tom Drummond, c.50, Cons leader Sutton Cl since 2020 - cllr since 2018. Trained solicitor; agency sales exec, Capital Radio, 1997-2002; worked for Initiative media buying agency, 2003-21. Wife works for current MP Paul Scully.

🔴 KINGSWINFORD & SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE (Lab target 404): hear Sally Benton has been picked as Labour candidate.

🔴 CROYDON EAST: Inside Croydon on suspicions that a senior Labour official has been suspended over the local vote-rigging scandal: insidecroydon.com/2024/04/11/lab…

🔴 SOUTH EAST CORNWALL (Lab target 252): Anna Gelderd picked as Labour candidate.

🟣 Reform UK say sorry for dropping a candidate for 'inactivity', when they didn't know he'd died: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

🔴 GORDON & BUCHAN (Lab target 424): Nural Hoque Ali picked as Labour candidate.

🔴 ARGYLL, BUTE & SOUTH LOCHABER (Lab target 397): Hamish Maxwell picked as Labour candidate.

🔴 PERTH & KINROSS-SHIRE (Lab target 426): Graham Cox picked as Labour candidate.

🔵SUTTON & CHEAM: Tom Drummond picked as Conservative candidate.

🔴 COWDENBEATH & KIRKCALDY: Wilma Brown suspended as Labour candidate.

🔴 COWDENBEATH & KIRKCALDY: Labour candidate Wilma Brown could be in trouble after she is accused of deleting 'racist tweets': thenational.scot/news/24243909.…

🔴 NORTH SOMERSET (Lab target 164): Sadik Al Hassan says he's on the shortlist for the Labour selection. Who are the other contenders? Please DM me.

Figures from Jill Rutter of British Future on the proportions of women candidates so far, party by party, including sitting MPs:

🔴 LEWES (Lab target 419): Danny Sweeney picked as Labour candidate.

🔴 FROME & EAST SOMERSET (Lab target 162): Robin Moss picked as Labour candidate.

🔴CHEADLE: I hear that Fowler won by 72 to 28.