FAIZA Shaheen has announced she will run against Labour as an independent after Keir Starmer’s party blocked her from being their candidate ...
Shaheen had been bidding to run for Labour in Chingford and Woodford Green, an area where she narrowly lost to Tory incumbent Iain Duncan Smith in the 2019 General Election.
Announcing her run for parliament, Shaheen, an academic with a focus on inequalities who works as a visiting professor of practice at the London School of Economics , said: “I have reached this decision following hundreds of messages from people in my community, who say there are no options left for them.
Shaheen added: “I aim to show that there is a progressive alternative to both parties that puts Chingford and Woodford Green first.”
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