JEMIMA BLAND SELECTED AS LIBERAL DEMOCRAT PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE FOR EAST WORTHING AND SHOREHAM WITH FULL ENDORSEMENT FROM HER PARTY

The selection meeting and vote took place on St George’s Day, 23rd April, at the Sompting Abbotts School.  The meeting was packed full by Lib Dem activists from all over the constituency. Lib Dem members vote by post or in person on the night to select their candidate

Jemima was extremely pleased with the result, saying: ‘I am thrilled to have been given such a strong endorsement by my party.

I just can’t wait to get started. We do what Lib Dems do best – work directly for our communities and neighbours. “

Jemima has worked in multinational business based in Paris, the Netherlands and London. She has worked in several roles for Shell and has also worked at the Financial Times in Madrid, for BUPA in Tunisia and for the Home Office in London.

She is an established community campaigner, founder of the Air Quality Waterloo campaigning group and the Young Professionals in Procurement Network for the Energy Industry. She is also an elected Trustee of the Waterloo Action Centre, a charity providing advice and support services. She is a graduate of Oxford University and SOAS in London.

Jemima has spent much of her life on the South Coast of England and is very happy to be moving back to the area to work for the community there. She will lead innovative and energetic campaigns as East Worthing and Shoreham’s Lib Dem Parliamentary Candidate. She is now involved in resolving several pressing issues currently facing the residents of Worthing, Lancing, Shoreham and Southwick.

In her spare time, Jemima likes walking or cycling in the South Downs, visiting galleries and exhibitions and playing tennis. She also has a mild addiction to Scandinavian murder mysteries.

She lives with her fiancé Solke Bruin, who works as a consultant, and is a devoted fan of his home football team in the Netherlands, Ajax. They will get married next summer and hope to start a family.

Jemima commented:

‘It is a great privilege to have been selected by the local Lib Dem party in East Worthing and Shoreham to represent them. I’m looking forward to working hard for everyone in East Worthing and Shoreham, and I can’t wait to move here.’

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