UKIP tonight announced its candidates who will contest seats in Stockton North and Hartlepool.
Supermarket check out assistant Philip Broughton, who mopped up 28 per cent of the vote when he stood in Hartlepool in the 2015 General Election, will stand again on June 8.
“I think we have a great chance of winning this seat,” he said. “This is a real UKIP-Labour battleground and we just need a four per cent swing to win it.”
Meanwhile, former firefighter Ted Strike will stand for UKIP in the Stockton North seat, taking on incumbent Labour MP Alex Cunningham. Mr Strike, 63, who came third in Stockton South in the 2015 Parliamentary election with over 5,000 votes, was brought up in Billingham and is now a town councillor in Ingleby Barwick.
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