Gomez’s Tom Gray beats Eddie Izzard in bid to be Brighton Labour candidate at next general election
nme.comGomez guitarist and Chair of the Ivors Academy Tom Gray has beaten Eddie Izzard in the bid to be Brighton Pavilion’s Labour candidate at the next UK general election.Musician and founder of the #BrokenRecord campaign Gray was selected as candidate today (December 17), and is hoping to become the first Labour MP for the constituency in more than a decade.He said on X/Twitter that he was “delighted and humbled to be selected”.Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, has announced that she plans to stand down at the next general election, which will take place no later than January 2025.Delighted and humbled to be selected to be the Labour candidate for Brighton Pavilion.
Thanks so much to everyone who helped in the campaign and thanks to Eddie, Lucy and Birgit for showing such solidarity and integrity on the trail.
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