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David Williams is the former chair of Uxbridge and South Ruislip Constituency Labour Party (CLP) who resigned his Labour Party membership on 21 July 2023, following the 2023 Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election.:
- "I have resigned as chair of Uxbridge and South Ruislip CLP.
- "I am also resigning my membership of the Labour Party.
- "Politics needs to have principles or we end up with people like Boris Johnson and Liz Truss running the country.
- "Jeremy Corbyn gave a huge boost to the Labour Party."[1]
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Revealing BBC interview
On 21 July 2023, James Foster tweeted:
- "A *very* revealing interview here.
- "Note how the interviewer brings up antisemitism when @MrDaveyWilliams raises the internal sabotage of 2017.
- "And then, when he pushes back against that, she shuts down the interview.
- "They can’t handle the truth.[2]
Candidate in 1997 GE
The same David Williams was the Labour candidate for Uxbridge at the May 1997 General Election, when he reduced a 12,000 Conservative majority in the seat to just 724 votes.
Tory MP Sir Michael Shersby died just a week after the General Election, causing a by-election to take place in July 1997.
Deselected in 1997 by-election
However, left winger David Williams was not well regarded by the New Labour government and failed even to make the shortlist for selection as the Labour candidate in the by-election. This led to at least 30 local Labour activists refusing to work for the by-election campaign in protest at David Williams' rejection as a candidate.
John Randall, the Tory candidate who was elected at the June 1997 Uxbridge by-election, said:
- "Mr Blair now has no choice but to explain to the people of Uxbridge why he ignored the views of a local Labour branch and instead imposed on us a candidate (Andy Slaughter) who has no connection with the area whatsoever."[3]
