Dr John Doddy is aiming to unseat current Broxtowe MP Darren Henry
A Conservative councillor who has chosen to stand in the General Election as an independent in a constituency with a Tory MP has been suspended from the party. Councillor Dr John Doddy represents the Stapleford and Broxtowe Central ward on Nottinghamshire County Council as a Conservative.
Cllr Dr Doddy, who works as a GP, has also lost his prominent role as chair of the county council’s Health and Wellbeing board.
Cllr Dr Doddy is a long-standing councillor, having served since 2012 and won four successive elections in his ward as a Conservative. Asked why he was now running against a Conservative, Dr Doddy said: "I suppose you could look at it that way, I would look at it in a positive light. "This is a passion, call it an NHS passion, fluoridation passion, give every child the best start in life passion, but for me my raison d'être is the delivery of health, be it one to one, county-wide, but even nationally.
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