Independent candidates who don't want your votes

Ealing Southall
Two of the Independent candidates in the Ealing Southall by-election are now telling their supporters to vote for someone else.

Gulbash Singh - (Conservative candidate in 2006) has announced that he is now supporting the Tories again.

Another independent candidate, Kuldeep Singh Grewal, urged his supporters to vote Labour instead on 19 July. Mr Grewal said he had always been a Labour member but had decided to stand as an Independent following "some internal grievances" with the party.


But he decided to reverse his decision following meetings with Sikh colleagues and supporters to unify support for Labour.

Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, who welcomed Mr Grewal to the party’s campaign on the steps of Ealing Town Hall, said Labour was not taking the election for granted. "You have to fight every election in the same way, to win. You must never ever take voters for granted and we are certainly not doing that here," he said.