Sanders' brother to fight on David Cameron's Parliament seat

September 23, 2016 21:21

Larry Sanders, the 81-year-old brother of former US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, has been selected by the UK's Green Party to contest from former prime minister David Cameron's old parliamentary seat.

Larry grew up in New York and has lived in Oxford since 1969, making him eligible to contest the election on October 20 from Cameron's Witney constituency in the university town.

Cameron, has quit as an MP on September 12, nearly three months after he resigned as Prime Minister in the wake of Britain's vote to leave the EU in a referendum.

After his selection yesterday, Larry said: "We need to show that we don't want Britain to be the most unequal country in Europe. We don't want unmet health needs to increase when we already have too few doctors, nurses, and hospital beds."

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