There are a few familiar faces from outside of politics looking for votes on July 4
Olympic athletes, top musicians and an ex-soap actor are among those standing to become Members of Parliament at the General Election . Blur drummer Dave Rowntree and rower James Cracknell are among the familiar figures seeking a seat in the House of Commons.
At the 2019 election, Ms Davies had a majority of 18,197 over her Labour rival in the constituency. In the current election, Mr Rowntree will go up against Tory candidate Kristy Adams. Ms Davies will instead stand in the nearby East Grinstead and Uckfield constituency. Double Olympic gold medal winner Mr Cracknell is vying to be the Tory MP for Colchester. The rower, who competed in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, will contest a seat previously represented by Will Quince, who served as a minister under both Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.
He will go up against Tory candidate James Daly, who at the last election had a majority of just 105 over his nearest competitor, Labour’s James Frith. The actor was axed from the ITV soap after Coronation Street bosses were alerted to Twitter comments he had made in 2016. He apologised for them at the time and said the language he had used was “unacceptable”.
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