Labour selects a second ethnic minority PPC in a winnable seat
29 07 2007
This weekend Ealing Central and Acton CLP selected Councillor Bassam Mahfouz as its Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the next General Election. Mahfouz becomes only the second ethnic minority Labour PPC to be selected in a winnable seat, after Rushanara Ali was selected to fight Bethnal Green and Bow in April.
The new seat, which comes into being at the next general election after boundary changes, has a notional Conservative majority of 84 and will be one of the closest fought three way marginals in the country.
Mahfouz who is parliamentary researcher to Karen Buck MP and Stephen Pound MP is Ealing Labour Group’s spokesperson on transport and the environment. He will be up against Conservative GLA member Angie Bray AM and Jon Ball, a television and film executive, for the Liberal Democrats.
Well done, Bassam! An excellent campaigner with solid Labour values. With all his energy, Bassm will have no problem winning this seat. Better make a few more copies of “Bam Bam” to distribute to your new voters eh Bassam?