It has been a few days since polling day and a chance for us all to review and consider what happened. In SW Devon, Gary Streeter extended his majority and the Lib Dems did well. In Plymouth, the Tories narrowly won the new Sutton and Devonport constituency meaning that the excellent Linda Gilroy will no longer be representing the city. I want to pay tribute to Linda – she’s been a superb mentor for me and a good friend throughout the campaign.
I also want to say thank you to all the volunteers from right across SW Devon and indeed the country who helped me in the last few months and over the last three years of me being Labour’s candidate in SW Devon.
Although I didn’t win – the campaign doesn’t stop here. The team in SW Devon will continue to ask where the Plymstock Pool is, will continue to call for a new library in Plympton and will continue to fight plans for an incinerator near Ivybridge. These are important local issues and if it were not for Labour the Tories would not have been held to account on these and other issues. I have long believed that Labour needs to be an effective opposition locally and we will continue to do so.
Finally, I want to say a personal thank you to those people who have supported me over the last three years. We decided to fight SW Devon as if it were a marginal and we did. Thank you to Brendan and John, my two campaign co-ordinators, the local party, campaign volunteers new and old and to all those people who helped fund the campaign. We now have the important task of being an effective opposition both locally and nationally. I genuinely believe the Liberal Democrat/Tory coalition will be bad for our country and our community and I will continue to fight for a fairer Britain, and a fairer Devon. I hope you will too. Thank you.
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