THE Conservatives have announced their candidate to fight the City of Durham constituency at the General Election.
Richard Lawrie, a Durham University tutor, has lived in the city since 1999.
He said his priorities for the constituency would be to properly scrutinize the proposed growth of the university, campaign to bring the Leamside Line out of mothballs, develop Durham’s tourism industry and “end the economic neglect of Durham City and its surrounding areas”.
Mr Lawrie said: “A vote for me is the only way to challenge the decades-long mismanagement of Durham”.
At the last General Election, Roberta Blackman-Woods won the seat with a Labour majority of more than 11,400 over the Tories in second place, with candidate Rebecca Coulson picking up 22.2 per cent of the vote.
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