The brother of Bernie Sanders, the former United States presidential nominee for the Democratic Party, has announced that he will be running for a seat in the British parliament, vacated last week by former Prime Minister David Cameron.
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He’s the brother of Bernie Sanders who recently lost his nomination in the United States presidential race.
The by-election was prompted by Mr Cameron’s surprise decision this month to quit as an MP for the wealthy, rural seat of Witney, three months after the Brexit vote prompted him to quit as prime minister.
In a statement about the Witney election, he said: “The major political parties are in disarray”.
Sanders has been the Green party’s health spokesman since a year ago, and says the NHS and social care are the issues “closest to my heart”.
‘I’ll be talking about the privatisation of the NHS, and the similar issues within social care’.
Much like his brother Bernie Sanders in the US, Larry is committed to the fight against inequality in wider society and feels confident that this could be an interesting time in the broader United Kingdom political climate.
But the odds are on Conservative candidate Robert Courts, a 37-year old local councillor and barrister, to keep the seat for the ruling party, said FT.
Sanders has a mountain to climb: Cameron won more than 35,000 votes past year compared to 2,970 for the Green candidate.
“We don’t want the Government to impose unworkable contracts on 50,000 precious doctors, when it is clear that the supposed reason for the contract, a seven day hospital service, can’t be done at present funding”.
The 82-year-old contested the neighbouring Oxford West and Abingdon constituency at last year’s general election, when he came in fifth place.
“We both have maintained a kind of naiveté, where we look around and say, why does a rich country have poor people?”
However, unless Mr Sanders manages to inject a degree of left-wing activism into the conservative stronghold of Witney, it is unlikely he’ll be in the House of Commons in four weeks’ time. “We can do better”, he added.
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Mr Courts, who has been a West Oxfordshire district councillor since 2014, said he was “hugely honoured” to be chosen.
