Who exactly are they? Part 2: The North

And so to part two of the candidate tour, this time the North currently held by the Lib Dems:

2005 Election Results:

Conservative: 20909 (35.5%)
Labour: 5447 (9.2%)
Liberal Democrat: 31515 (53.4%)
UKIP: 978 (1.7%)
Other: 116 (0.2%)
Majority: 10606 (18%)

Current Incumbent:

Norman Lamb (Lib Dems)
Website: www.normanlamb.libdems.org.uk
They Work For You Profile: www.theyworkforyou.com

Educated at Wymondham College and Leicester University. Employment lawyer. Norwich councillor 1987-1991. Contested Norfolkl North 1992, 1997. First elected as MP for Norfolk North in 2001. PPS to Charles Kennedy 2003-2005, Lib Dem shadow secretary for the DTU 2004-2006, briefly Chief of Staff to Menzies Campbell in 2006 before becoming Lib Dem shadow health secretary in 2006

Trevor Ivory (Conservatives)
Website: http://trevorivory.wordpress.com/

Trevor lives in North Walsham with his wife, Lisa and their young son, Alex. Trevor studied at UEA in Norwich and has lived in Norfolk for over a decade. Trevor works in Norwich as a solicitor.

Phil Harris (Labour)
Website: ?? 

All we know is that he was a former Norwich counsellor... No online presence whatsoever which is a bit odd within a month of a general election...


 
 

Andrew Boswell (Green)
Website: www.greenparty.org.uk 

Trained as a biochemist, Andrew, who is 53, worked at UEA for many years in scientific computing. He was first elected as a County Councillor in 2005 and was re-elected in 2009 with 64% of the vote. He is now Leader of the seven Green Party County Councillors – the third largest group at County Hall. He has been a columnist for the EDP and is a governor at Avenue Junior School.

Michael Baker (UKIP)
Website: www.ukipeast.com

Michael Baker was born and brought up in North Norfolk attending Gresham's School in Holt before attending university in London. In 1973 he returned to Holt to take the reins of the family business. He was elected onto the Holt Town Council in the mid '70's and the North Norfolk District Council in 1981 He joined UKIP in 2007 in protest at the leadership of the Conservative Party no longer representing the true values of its members and David Cameron's strong pro EU position.

While undertaking this trawl for candidates I have stumbled across the excellent work undertaken by www.chrisbardell.com who has had an in-depth look at the web campaigns being (or not being) run by each of the candidates. The people of North Norfolk will it seems have to sit like Vladimir and Estragon until election day to see if there is a Labour candidate on their ballot.