[Photo: Clive Dellard]
The Liberal Democrats have selected local businesswoman and campaigner, Anna Sabine, as their election candidate for the new marginal Frome & East Somerset constituency.
The new boundaries mean the constituency is set to be a two-horse race between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservative party.
The new constituency finds itself positioned in an area of Lib Dem strength – straddling the two Lib Dem dominated council areas of BANES and Somerset. In the last local elections, the Lib Dems enjoyed massive successes in these council areas and inflicted a heavy defeat upon the Conservatives.
The constituency also includes a significant part of the Somerton & Frome constituency where, last summer, Sarah Dyke and the Lib Dems won a famous by-election with a 29% swing from the Conservative party.
Anna Sabine lives locally and is raising her family here. She is an entrepreneur who has run award-winning businesses.
Liberal Democrat candidate for Frome & East Somerset Anna Sabine said:
“I am proud to stand for Parliament for my local area and am determined to give this constituency a strong voice in Westminster. The towns and villages in this new constituency have historically been taken for granted by their Conservative MPs.
“I will be a local champion who will fight to protect our waterways, save our health services and support local businesses. We have a Liberal Democrat MP, Sarah Dyke, in part of the constituency who is delivering every day for local communities, and I want to follow in her footsteps.
“At the next election, it will be a two-horse race between four more years of a tired and out of touch Conservative party, or a fresh start with a Liberal Democrat MP.”
