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'''Finchley and Golders Green''' is a borough constituency created in 1997 represented in the [[House of Commons]] of the UK Parliament. The current MP is [[Mike Freer]] of the [[Conservative Party]], who has held the seat since the 2010 UK General Election.
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'''Finchley and Golders Green''' is a borough constituency created in 1997 and represented in the [[House of Commons]] of the UK Parliament by [[Conservative Party]] MP [[Mike Freer]] since the UK/2010 General Election.
  
Following the defection of [[Luciana Berger]] to the [[Liberal Democrats]] there is speculation that she will stand in the constituency.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2019/09/luciana-bergers-defection-coup-jo-swinson-and-opportunity-lib-dems|title=Luciana Berger’s defection is a coup for Jo Swinson – and an opportunity for the Lib Dems|first=Stephen|last=Bush|date=5 September 2019|accessdate=5 September 2019|newspaper=New Statesman}}</ref> This change in candidate would require the approval of the current prospective candidate  ([[Clareine Enderby]]) and of the local party.
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==Prospective parliamentary candidates==
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[[Sara Conway]] was selected as the [[Labour Party]] PPC for the constitutency but announced on 10 September 2019 that she was standing down after criticism of her comments about [[anti-semitism]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/sara-conway-quits-as-labour-s-finchley-and-golders-green-candidate-after-antisemitism-comments-1.488450|first=Lee|last=Harpin|title=Sara Conway quits as Labour's Finchley and Golders Green candidate after antisemitism comments|newspaper=Jewish Chronicle|date=10 September 2019}}</ref>
  
[[Sara Conway]] was selected as Labour's candidate but announced on 10 September 2019 that she was standing down following criticism of her comments about [[anti-semitism]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/sara-conway-quits-as-labour-s-finchley-and-golders-green-candidate-after-antisemitism-comments-1.488450|first=Lee|last=Harpin|title=Sara Conway quits as Labour's Finchley and Golders Green candidate after antisemitism comments|newspaper=Jewish Chronicle|date=10 September 2019}}</ref>
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Following the defection of former [[Labour Party]] and [[The Independent Group]] MP [[Luciana Berger]] to the [[Liberal Democrats]] in September 2019, the chair of Barnet [[Lib Dems]] announced on 26 September 2019 that she had been selected as the PPC:
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:"Luciana lives in the constituency, has a track record as a dedicated, hard-working MP and has an unwavering determination to see an end to the [[Brexit]] chaos now engulfing us.
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:"She has the full support of myself, the whole Barnet executive and the former candidate for the constituency [[Clareine Enderby]]. We believe she will be a brilliant candidate in Finchley and Golders Green.<ref>''[https://barnetlibdems.org.uk/en/article/2019/1327072/luciana-berger-will-be-our-parliamentary-candidate-in-finchley-and-golders-green "Luciana Berger will be our Parliamentary Candidate in Finchley and Golders Green"]''</ref>
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==Thatcher's seat==
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The majority of the constituency's territory was previously in the former Finchley seat, created in 1918, and was most famously represented by former Conservative Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]] between 1959-1992; although boundary changes meant that she never again attained her large majority of 1959, and was re-elected by a 10-point margin in 1974, she was nonetheless returned by majorities exceeding 9,000 votes at General Elections throughout her premiership. Since the nominal result at the 1992 General Election, and officially from its creation, the seat has been a national bellwether.
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The UK/2015 General Election result gave the seat the 65th most marginal majority of the [[Conservative Party]]'s 331 seats by percentage of majority.<ref>''[http://www.ukpolitical.info/conservative-mps-elected-2015.htm "Table showing Conservative MPs elected at the 2015 General Election"]''</ref>  
 
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Revision as of 14:14, 26 September 2019

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Finchley and Golders Green is a borough constituency created in 1997 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Conservative Party MP Mike Freer since the UK/2010 General Election.

Prospective parliamentary candidates

Sara Conway was selected as the Labour Party PPC for the constitutency but announced on 10 September 2019 that she was standing down after criticism of her comments about anti-semitism.[1]

Following the defection of former Labour Party and The Independent Group MP Luciana Berger to the Liberal Democrats in September 2019, the chair of Barnet Lib Dems announced on 26 September 2019 that she had been selected as the PPC:

"Luciana lives in the constituency, has a track record as a dedicated, hard-working MP and has an unwavering determination to see an end to the Brexit chaos now engulfing us.
"She has the full support of myself, the whole Barnet executive and the former candidate for the constituency Clareine Enderby. We believe she will be a brilliant candidate in Finchley and Golders Green.[2]

Thatcher's seat

The majority of the constituency's territory was previously in the former Finchley seat, created in 1918, and was most famously represented by former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher between 1959-1992; although boundary changes meant that she never again attained her large majority of 1959, and was re-elected by a 10-point margin in 1974, she was nonetheless returned by majorities exceeding 9,000 votes at General Elections throughout her premiership. Since the nominal result at the 1992 General Election, and officially from its creation, the seat has been a national bellwether.

The UK/2015 General Election result gave the seat the 65th most marginal majority of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority.[3]

 

Related Document

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:The Unprincipled – and Potentially Racist – Lib Demsblog post13 September 2019Craig MurrayIf LibDem candidate Clareine Enderby is indeed replaced by Luciana Berger she will be a victim of racism, as the sole grounds on which Ms Berger is being touted as preferable for the 20% Jewish Finchley and Golders Green constituency is her ethnicity.
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