Comic Eddie Izzard launches bid to turn into Labour MP in Brighton
Eddie Izzard has launched a marketing campaign to turn into Labour MP for Brighton Pavilion.
The comic is aiming to be chosen as Labour’s candidate for the seat on the subsequent normal election, when the Green Party’s solely MP Caroline Lucas is standing down.
Izzard, who also goes by the name of Suzy, introduced the transfer in a video posted on social media, wherein she touted her East Sussex roots and love of the “open-minded and welcoming” metropolis.
Follow live updates on today’s political news
She criticised the Conservatives for making an attempt to “drag us down”, in addition to the Green Party management in Brighton below which she stated: “House building stalled whilst rubbish piled high in the streets.”
In an additional dig on the Green Party, Izzard stated: “It will take practical action – not protest – to fix what’s broken”, including that she will “inspire many thousands to become our friends and allies in the fight for a fairer, greener, cleaner planet”.
Last yr, Izzard misplaced out within the choice contest to be the candidate within the secure Labour seat of Sheffield Central, coming second to a neighborhood councillor.
If chosen to be Labour candidate, the star will go up in opposition to London Assembly member and former Green Party co-leader Sian Berry, who has been chosen because the Green candidate to switch Ms Lucas.
The Lib Dems and Conservatives haven’t began their choice course of within the seat but.
Read More:
Izzard: ‘I consider being trans a superhero thing’
The MPs who are standing down at next general election
Ms Lucas, 62, made historical past when she was elected because the MP for Brighton Pavilion on the 2010 normal election, changing into the primary and solely Green Party candidate to enter the House of Commons.
Her share of the vote has elevated at each election since, and she or he received with a majority of virtually 20,000 in 2019.
Caroline Lucas is standing down on the subsequent normal election
In an interview with Brighton news outlet The Argus, Izzard praised the outgoing Green MP for doing a “wonderful job”, however added: “One MP can’t make a government. The Green Party is the party of protest, the Conservative Party is the party of chaos and Labour is the party of governance.”
If chosen to face for Labour, after which elected on the subsequent normal election, Izzard would turn into Labour’s first MP within the constituency for 13 years.
Izzard would additionally break a glass ceiling by changing into Labour’s first transgender MP, telling The Argus: “That would be very positive but just like Obama being an African-American man becoming president, it wasn’t the thing that defined his presidency.”
Izzard: ‘I think about being trans a superhero factor’
The comedian stated she is going to cease performing if elected to parliament to concentrate on the job, in the best way the late Labour MP and Academy Award-winning actress Glenda Jackson did.
“I will put all this energy in – I’m not coming into politics to sit on my hands,” Izzard stated.
A timetable for Labour’s choice course of has not but been set out.