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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ros Wynne Jones

Untold story of the Labour candidate who stood against Boris Johnson and nearly won

Three years ago, in the hope-filled summer of 2019, Ali Milani was causing upset in Boris Johnson ’s Parliamentary seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.

Caught up in the David and Goliath moment, thousands of young people were turning up to Milani’s rallies and going door-to-door canvassing to help unseat the Prime Minister.

Milani was everything the local MP Boris was not. Local, for one thing, and raised on a nearby council estate by a single mother.

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