Today Lincoln CLP have selected their candidate for the next general election. Lucy Rigby was selected by local party members. Congratulations to Lucy and commiserations to the other candidates. Lucy’s biography is below:
Lucy Rigby – An Islington Councillor, Rigby was elected in 2010 as part of a landslide council win and is currently the council’s Audit Committee chair. She also has local connections having campaigned in Lincoln when Labour took the City Council back in 2011. A lawyer by profession, she has an impressive CV – a competition lawyer by training with experience in private practice and for the Office of Fair Trading, as well as having worked internationally both in the Hague and practising EU competition law in Brussels.
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