LABOUR have come under fire for parachuting in General Election candidates for Wales at the last-minute.
Torsten Bell, who runs London-based think tank the Resolution Foundation and has no connection to Wales, has been made the Labour candidate for the safe Swansea West seat.
According to the Companies House register, Barros-Curtis was the sole director of Movement for Another Future Limited – which was the name linked to Starmer’s website during his successful campaign to become leader of the Labour Party.Prior to working on Starmer’s campaign, Barros-Curtis had a role in Owen Smith’s failed 2016 leadership bid, in which he was a “trusted adviser to Mr Smith and the campaign’s chair and vice-chair in the campaign’s final weeks”.
"We know that Keir Starmer likes to have an iron grip on selection processes and that he objects to a plurality of views within his party, and it now appears that this extends to who he is willing to have as Labour candidates in Wales. And Labour’s candidate in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross is Eva Kestner, who works as a councillor in Lewisham in London.
He added the rush to have a candidate in place can also lead to a lack of due diligence during the selection process.
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