THE Conservatives have selected a leading campaigner for Brexit to fight the Burnley seat in the June 8 General Election.
Paul White, 30, is a Pendle councillor and was North West director of Vote Leave during the Euro-referendum campaign.
He has promised ‘a full-on campaign’ to win the seat which has not returned a Conservative MP since 1910
Cllr White, who lost his place on Lancashire County Council last week, said: “Burnley voted to leave the EU with 66 per cent of its voters backing Brexit.
“They deserve a Brexit MP.
“Labour’s Julie Copper is a ‘Remainer’ and a member of Jeremy Corbyn’s front bench and Liberal Democrat candidate Gordon Birtwistle is a ‘Remainer’ too.
“I am the candidate in a unique set of circumstances.”
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