Is This The End Of Widdecombe?

[TheDevil]

https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/13/ann-widdecombe-beaten-general-election-gay-remain-mp-11897850/

As I understand it she has lost her seat.

[youngmafbog]

I would imagine so, didnt she say she was retiring before but came to BP due to the traitors in the HOQ?

[emmie]

as have plenty of others. If she has then can't see a future for her in politics.

[TheDevil]

I'm not sure. She's not a woman I usually follow.

[THECORBYLOON]

She wasn't sitting as an MP, she is in the European Parliament.

[TheDevil]

She is brexit party MEP but I thought that she was running for MP

[emmie]

read the link....

[New Judge]

She hadn't got a seat to lose (not in Westminster, anyway). She withdrew from UK politics following the 2010 GE. She stood as a candidate for the Brexit Party in the European Parliamentary elections and was elected following the BP's success in that contest. She stood yesterday as the BP's candidate in Plymouth Sutton & Devonport and came a poor third behind Labour and the Conservatives but ahead of the Liberal non-Democrats.

[jackthehat]

She's still an MEP so this loss won't have hit her too hard.

I wonder when, or if, she will retire from public life/service? Although, I am not sure she has much impact on my day to day life, in any case.

[naomi24]

//As I understand it she has lost her seat. //

In that case you don't understand it. As has been said she didn't have a seat. She's an MEP. I imagine she'll continue with that and as she's been doing for the past several years, writing her newspaper column and appearing on various bits and pieces of television.

[drmorgans]

Presumably, all UK MEPs will have to see alternative gainful employment after 31 Jan 2020?

[naomi24]

Yes.

[cassa333]

You know I didn’t even realise she was standing as an MP.

Did she have to step down as an MEP to do it?

[New Judge]

No.

[cassa333]

Oh. Can you be both an MEP and British MP at the same time?

[douglas9401]

Golly!

[EDDIE51]

We can but hope !!