My role on this year's executive aside from my role as Deputy Chairman, is to look after the Marginal Seats initiative. We initially pulled together a list of 11 constituencies through identifying marginal seats ourselves, making sure we had a good geographical split, and discussing with the target seats team. The list of seats that were identified to begin working with were as follows: Harlow, Loughborough, Worcester, Solihull, Pendle, Torbay, Aberconwy, Portsmouth North, Wirral West, Keighley, and Finchley and Golders Green.

So how are we doing...? Well, I am pleased to announce that we have agreed the procedure for over 75% of the seats, and are in the process of agreeing the procedure and timeline in the remaining seats. We have found that where there is no PPC in place, it is much more difficult (a learning point!). 

 

We have dates set for events in four constituencies before Christmas – please add them to your diaries, and come along if you can:

Thursday 23rd November: TORBAY, PPC Marcus Wood. Venue TBC, 7pm

Thursday 30th November: HARLOW, PPC Rob Halfon @ Yates Wine Bar, 7pm 

                                              WORCESTER, PPC Robin Walker @ VENUE TBC

Tuesday 5th December:     LOUGHBOROUGH, PPC Nicky Morgan @ Venue TBC, 7pm.

  

If you are a member in any of the target seats that we have selected, or are interested in helping out in anyway, please get in touch by e-mailing me at clairepalmer@conservativefuture.com.

 

Finally, as you may have seen we are in the process of recruiting for an extra person to be co-opted onto the Executive to assist with the role of building branches in marginal seats. Conor Burns and I will be interviewing the applicants this afternoon, with a decision likely to be made at the next Executive meeting on 20th November.