The Labour candidate trying to win Boris Johnson’s old seat has spoken of his “whirlwind weekend” getting ready for a suprise by-election. Johnson resigned as the MP forUxbridge and South Ruislip on Friday night after being told he’d be suspended from Parliament for more than 10 days over Partygate.
It leaves Danny Beales, the Labour candidate, hoping to win the snap vote. “It wasn’t how I envisioned my weekend,” he told us from a pub in between door-knocking sessions yesterday. “We were looking at a general election in a year or 18 months time... it’s certainly increased the intensity very quickly”. Beales was helped by an influx of supporters in the past two days, saying over 100 extra volunteers went down to canvas for Labour soon after the news about Johnson broke.
