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| Andrea Jenkyns and Mark Sewards |
Former Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns has lashed out at her Labour successor in a lengthy tirade on social media. The 327 word statement, posted to her Facebook and X accounts, is headed 'classless new MP'. Her successor Mark Sewards appears to have drawn her ire by visiting her former constituency office and mocking her outgoing staff. She also claims that he emailed her a few days following her defeat, asking her if she knew of 'any offices'. He does sound like a darling, doesn't he?
The full statement can be seen below.
Jenkyns defeated Ed Balls at the 2015 general election with a wafer thin majority of 422. She significantly increased her majority in 2017, and again in 2019 where it stood at a very healthy 11,267. Her Morley and Outwood seat was abolished this year due to boundary changes and redrawn as Leeds South West and Morley. Sewards actually garnered fewer votes than Labour got in the previous seat, but the collapsing Tory vote and Reform surge meant that he secured an 8,423 majority over Jenkyns. A reduced turnout probably didn't help her cause, either.
Sewards - yet another law graduate - describes himself as a 'progressive' in a campaign video from 2017, when he stood as the candidate for Harrogate and Knaresborough. Ironically, in that video he also describes how Labour would 'make sure that pensioners' incomes would stay as they are, if not improve'. Eight years later, he won't want to be reminded of that pledge.
Sewards' 2017 election video can be seen below.
It's worth noting Sewards' attitude towards Brexit. Like most of his comrades he gravitates towards a second referendum, in line with Keir Starmer's strategy that he later imposed on Corbyn ie. to hold a referendum on the Brexit deal with retaining EU membership as the default option in the event of a no vote.
Little wonder then that this weasly looking man is taking great delight in rubbing staunch Brexiteer Jenkyns' nose in it...
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