General election: People's Vote announce 100 key seats - is yours on the list?
Anna Soubry has not been named on a list of People's Vote supporters as they launch a tactical voting site.
Wednesday 13 November 2019 09:42, UK
The People's Vote campaign has named 100 candidates it says could tip the balance of power into a second EU referendum as it launches a tactical voting website.
The campaign, which has faced recent public controversy after one of the directors tried to sack two senior staff members, has put people like Dominic Grieve, the now independent former attorney general, at the forefront of a push to get more MPs who support its cause into the Commons.
The group campaigns for a second referendum on leaving the EU.
It will back the 112 candidates in the hope of engineering a Conservative defeat to force another referendum.
As well as Mr Grieve, who recently confirmed he would stand again in his Beaconsfield seat, having lost the Conservative whip, the list includes Rosie Duffield, the Labour candidate for Canterbury.
Last night, her Lib Dem opponent Tim Walker dropped out of the race, in fear of splitting the vote. But the party said they would replace him.
Former Labour MP Chuka Umunna, who is moving from his previous Streatham seat to contest Cities and Westminster, is also named.
However, the former Conservative Anna Soubry, who left the party and formed the Independent Group for Change, is not on the list, despite being a leading campaigner in the People's Vote group.
She is defending an 863 majority from the 2017 election, in Broxtowe, where she had stood as a Conservative.
A People's Vote spokesman said: "These seats are the PV100 - the seats that will decide the election. It's especially important that our supporters vote tactically here to secure a final say referendum. If they don't, Boris Johnson will win this election and we will leave with his deal."
Mr Grieve said: "At this general election, choice in respect of individual candidates may well make a massive difference to our country's future, depending on their attitude to a People's Vote.
"I recommend the People's Vote tactical voting site, as providing useful information on which to base their vote."
Also on the list is Labour stalwart Dennis Skinner and his former party colleague, the now Lib Dem Luciana Berger.
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The full list of seats:
Bedford, St Albans, Ipswich, Thurrock, Peterborough, Stevenage, North Norfolk, Colchester, South Cambridgeshire, South East Cambridgeshire, Hitchin and Harpenden, Chelmsford, Lincoln, Gedling, Bassetlaw, Bolsover, Derby North, High Peak, Ashfield, Enfield Southgate, Croydon Central, Battersea, Chipping Barnet, Carshalton and Wallington, Hendon, Finchley and Golders Green, Richmond Park, Cities and Westminster, Wimbledon, Chelsea and Fulham, Bishop Auckland, Workington, Darlington, Stockton South, Sedgefield, Belfast East, Belfast South, North Down, South Antrim, Lancaster and Fleetwood, Weaver Vale, Warrington South, Barrow and Furness, Cheadle, Bury North, Bury South, Wirral West, Bolton North East, Southport, Pendle, Hazel Grove, Burnley, Crewe and Nantwich, Westmorland and Lonsdale, Lewes, Reading East, Hastings and Rye, Winchester, Eastbourne, Milton Keynes South, Canterbury, Milton Keynes North, Crawley, Oxford West and Abingdon, Reading West, Eastleigh, Guildford, Esher and Walton, Wokingham, Beaconsfield, Bristol North West, Cheltenham, North Devon, Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, St Ives, Stroud, Wells, South Swindon, North Cornwall, Thornbury and Yate, Cambourne and Redruth, Taunton Deane, Newton Abbot, Totnes, Vale of Clwyd, Delyn, Wrexham, Alyn and Deeside, Gower, Clwyd South, Bridgend, Cardiff North, Newport West, Ynys Mon, Aberconwy, Brecon and Radnorshire, Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Wolverhampton South East, Stoke on Trent North, Dudley North, Stoke on Trent Central, Warwick and Leamington, Newcastle Under Lyme, Wakefield, Rother Valley, Scunthorpe, Dewsbury, Keighley, Colne Valley, Penistone and Stocksbridge, Pudsey and Sheffield Hallam.
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