Linus ReesThe Labour Party has selected Camden Council leader Georgia Gould as its candidate for the Queen’s Park and Maida Vale Parliamentary constituency at the 4 July General Election.
“I am delighted to be standing for Labour in Queen’s Park & Maida Vale,” said Gould in a statement issued by the Labour Party.
“With Keir Starmer at the helm, Labour is back in the service of working people. We will put an end to 14 years of Tory chaos and decline with a plan for national renewal, built on a bedrock of economic stability.
“Only a Labour government can deliver the change we need to take back our streets, get the NHS back on its feet, break down barriers to opportunity and get Britain building again,” she said.
As well as the leader of Camden Council, Gould also chair’s the cross-party body London Councils.
“She campaigns on devolution, community power, housing and investment in young people. She has deep links to the community, having been born in St Mary’s hospital and spending her childhood living on Westbourne Park Road,” said The Labour Party in a press statement.
Adam Hug, leader of Westminster Council, applauded Gould on her successful candidacy, saying: “Big congratulations to Georgia Gould — a major star in the Labour firmament and the newest member of the Queen’s Park and Maida Vale and Westminster Labour families.”
Gould has been leader of Camden for seven years and “faced the unprecedented challenges of the Chalcots PFI fire safety scandal, Covid and the cost-of-living crisis,” wrote Richard Osley in the Camden New Journal.
Former Labour party member Andrew Feinstein, who is a candidate in Holborn and St Pancras, described Gould’s selection as a gain for Camden.
“At least Camden Council will be rid of Starmerite Georgia Gould — who was OK with tents being seized from homeless people in midwinter, saw a decline in social housing conditions and refused to even discuss calling for a ceasefire. Now let’s get Starmer out of Camden too!” he said on X.
Gould apologised last year after council staff and contractors were involved in an eviction of homeless people living in tents outside University College Hospital in Huntley Street, Fitzrovia. Camden originally denied they were involved but the operation was filmed and widely condemned.
Queen’s Park and Maida Vale is a new constituency and is roughly equivalent to and replaces the Westminster North constituency currently held by Labour MP Karen Buck who is retiring at the forthcoming election.
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