The family of former Tory Convention President, Richard Stephenson, appear to have taken David Cameron's latest ‘green’ pronouncements very seriously. Stephenson's environmentally minded elder sister, Claire, was elected to Norwich City Council on Thursday with a thumping 63% of the vote - for the Green Party! Friends of the Smithfield PR Director, 30, have started to down play rumours that he wishes to follow in his sister’s footsteps with his own bid for the London mayoralty in 2008. Stephenson, who spent four years on the Board of the Conservative Party is said to be concentrating on his city career and charitable interests, which include starting a new fundraising outfit for MPs and taking a cross party group across the Arctic next February. I wonder if David Cameron will be going on a return trip. I hear the huskies are missing him already.
Sunday, May 07, 2006
Richard Stephenson Plays Down Mayoral Rumours
The family of former Tory Convention President, Richard Stephenson, appear to have taken David Cameron's latest ‘green’ pronouncements very seriously. Stephenson's environmentally minded elder sister, Claire, was elected to Norwich City Council on Thursday with a thumping 63% of the vote - for the Green Party! Friends of the Smithfield PR Director, 30, have started to down play rumours that he wishes to follow in his sister’s footsteps with his own bid for the London mayoralty in 2008. Stephenson, who spent four years on the Board of the Conservative Party is said to be concentrating on his city career and charitable interests, which include starting a new fundraising outfit for MPs and taking a cross party group across the Arctic next February. I wonder if David Cameron will be going on a return trip. I hear the huskies are missing him already.
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4 comments:
This is a joke, right? He doesn't have the experience to run in a 5 million plus electorate race--nor does he have any qualifications to be Mayor.
He's a nice enough guy but who starts these rumours? They don't make any sense. Are people just floating names like his because they want to stop serious candidates?
She needs to improve her bar charts knowledge:
http://www.norwichgreenparty.org/ward_newsletters/nelson/n0406.html#i1
Are they by chance relatives to the Julia Stephenson who stood for the Greens in Kensington and Chelsea in recent years (the Green Godness in the Indy)?
Richard is a good guy and a hard worker. Dont know if there is much truth in such rumours but if he did stand London could do a lot worse!
Conservatives need to take the Mayoral race seriously if they want to be taken seriously by Londoners. People with no experience of being a candidate in huge campaigns or of actually running big organizations would send the message that we take neither the election nor the job seriously. We need someone who has actually run citywide transport or policing, someone who has credibility with Londoners, not some underqualified, inexperienced candidate to show that the Tories are "inclusive"--Londoners aren't nearly as interested in our party as we are. Let's not test their patience with this.
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