Conservative pro-Remain candidate to run as an independent in Richmond Park by-election
With incumbent Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith a Brexit-backer who is standing as an independent in the Richmond Park by-election, another Conservative, Fiona-Natasha Syms, is now also going to run. She is a pro-Remainer looking to give pro-Remain Conservative voters a non-Lib Dem choice:
Tory voters who don’t want Zac, who won’t vote Lib Dem (OBV), you have an option. I won’t just be focusing on Brexit & Heathrow. Back me.
— Fiona-Natasha Syms WEAR A MASK 😷 (@fifisyms) October 29, 2016
Little Times diary piece from wonderful @patrick_kidd. #Lioness #richmondbyelection pic.twitter.com/LPAZ3L2c7o
— Fiona-Natasha Syms WEAR A MASK 😷 (@fifisyms) October 29, 2016
That said, Fiona-Natasha Syms is not exactly arguing the pro-European case forcefully:
Lib Dems can harp on about Remain but it’s done. We Brexit. Not thrilled either but it’s like trying to re-run say….WW2? You get the gist.
— Fiona-Natasha Syms WEAR A MASK 😷 (@fifisyms) October 29, 2016
She will certainly bring a different range of views from those usually heard in politics:
*also no anti-Eton bias. Some of my best friends went to Eton and I’ve dated a few. Grounded, clever grafters with social consciences all.
— Fiona-Natasha Syms WEAR A MASK 😷 (@fifisyms) October 29, 2016
Fiona-Natasha Syms was in the national news a few years ago after reacting very critically to one of David Cameron’s reshuffles, in which her husband – Conservative MP Robert Syms – was sacked.
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