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Islington Tribune - by TOM FOOT
Published: 18 April 2008

Jeanette Arnold

Seven hopefuls bid to wrest Assembly seat
from Labour

EIGHT candidates will contest the London Assembly elections in the constituency which includes Islington.
North East London constituency – spanning Islington, Waltham Forest and Hackney – has been held by Labour’s Jennette Arnold since 2000.
A former Islington councillor who lives in Highbury, she is the Labour group’s spokeswoman for culture, sports and tourism.
Lib Dem candidate Meral Ece became one of the first women from a Turkish-speaking background to become a councillor in this country.
She has been on Islington Council since 1994.
Andrew Boff, the Conservative candidate, lives in Hackney. He came third to Lord Archer and Steve Norris in the party’s first selection process for the London mayoral election in 2000.
Green Party candidate Aled Fisher is a 21-year-old university student who lives in Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell.
Other candidates for the May 1 election are Unjum Mirza (Left List), Nicholas Jones (UK Independence Party), Maxine Hargreaves (Christian People’s Alliance) and John Dodds (English Democrats).

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