Dr Carol Weaver is a former university lecturer at Leicester’s De Montford University with a PhD in European security. She has been a Liberal Democrat campaigner for many years and is currently the chairman of the non-partisan Leicestershire and Rutland European Movement.
The Brexit Party 70-year-old RAF veteran Jim Bennett.
Conservative Alicia Kearns has been selected
She Currently works in Counter-Terrorism & National Security
Currently delivering programmes with vulnerable communities in Lebanon, with the Lebanese Armed Forces, in Morocco, and in the Western Balkans.
Also a UK FCO Stabilisation Network advisor.
She stood for Mitcham and Morden for the Conservative party at the General Election 2017, and to have increased the Conservative vote by the largest amount since 1987.
Labour Party Andy Thomas as the Labour Party candidate for Rutland and Melton.
Andy Thomas was born into a “Police family” and grew up in council estates in North Wales. Educational opportunities widened his horizons and enabled him to develop a successful and interesting career in the public sector. Andy has worked on rehousing families from slum clearance in Salford, fighting racial discrimination in Manchester and London, and working for urban regeneration in Loughborough and Leicester.
Andy was elected a Labour Councillor of Manchester City Council in 1979-80. Later he was a candidate for Harborough and Leicestershire Councils from 2015. He was Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Harborough in the 2017 general election when his team doubled Labour’s share of the vote. Keen to use his lifetime’s experience serving the public in the Rutland and Melton constituency, Andy is committed to making life better for the many not the few.
Green Party Alastair McQuillan, who was has been a candidate in previous elections.
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