{"id":7926,"date":"2014-12-11T08:35:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T08:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coopsy.co.uk\/thenews\/?p=7926"},"modified":"2014-12-15T19:21:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T19:21:50","slug":"labour-councillor-to-defect-to-ukip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-news.uk\/index.php\/politics-2\/2014\/12\/labour-councillor-to-defect-to-ukip\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Councillor To Defect to UKIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By William Mills<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7929\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7929\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7929\" src=\"https:\/\/coopsy.co.uk\/thenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Leigh-Farrow.jpg\" alt=\"Leigh Farrow\" width=\"200\" height=\"196\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leigh Farrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last night there were reports that a Labour <strong>Brighton and Hove City Councillor<\/strong> was defecting to<strong> UKIP<\/strong> and an announcement was to be made at today&#8217;s Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leigh Farrow<\/strong>, who was elected for <strong>Labour<\/strong> in <strong>Moulsecomb &amp; Bevendean<\/strong> in 2011 has defected according sources close to <strong>UKIP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Elected with fellow <strong>Labour<\/strong> ward councillors <strong>Mo Marsh<\/strong> and <strong>Anne Meadows<\/strong>, <strong>Cllr Farrow<\/strong> came second in the poll with 1,666 votes easily taking the seat from <strong>Tory<\/strong> <strong>Maria Caulfield <\/strong>(1,068)<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>who is contesting <strong>Lewes<\/strong> in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In response to the news that former Labour Councillor Leigh Farrow had joined UKIP, a spokesperson for the Labour and Co-operative group said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leigh Farrow was removed as a Labour candidate following repeated complaints from council staff and party colleagues of unacceptable behaviour, not for any political reason.<\/p>\n<p>If he wishes to seek election in May for UKIP then that is a matter for him, although we would question whether he agrees with UKIP policy of removing rights in the workplace, such as sick leave, health and safety, maternity leave, paid holidays and more, as well as their support for the privatisation of the NHS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By William Mills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,103],"tags":[515],"class_list":["post-7926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-brighton","category-politics-2","tag-ukip"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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