Ex-area MP’s bid to win back seat
Friday 12th March 2010, 9:30AM GMT.
A former Shropshire MP has thrown his hat into the ring to try to win back his old seat at the General Election, it was revealed today.
But Christopher Gill, the former Conservative MP for Ludlow, will be standing as a candidate for the UK Independence Party.
The Ludlow constituency seat is currently held and will be defended by Conservative Philip Dunne.
Mr Gill, who lives near the Bridgnorth area, said that he was contesting the Parliamentary seat that he had held with record majorities from 1987 to 2001 because of the failure of all three major political parties to honour their promises of a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union.
He said: “Like so many others I am totally appalled at the failure of all three main parties to talk about the real issues affecting our country at the present time.
“Voters are genuinely worried about the state of the economy, the level of immigration into our country, the failure of the law to deal with rising levels of crime and not least the cavalier way in which our elected representatives have given away our right to self-government.”
Mr Gill announced that he had joined the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) in 2006 and a year later he was elected to UKIP’s National Executive Committee.
Mr Gill is the honorary president of the Freedom Association which campaigns for individual freedom and national independence.
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