Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has been selected as a Labour candidate at the next general election.
The musician who also released his debut album ‘Rock Songs’ last January, will stand for the Conservative-held Mid Sussex seat, which is currently being represented by Mims Davies.
It was also held by Sir Nicholas Soames, grandson of Sir Winston Churchill from May 1997 to November 2019.
Rowntree will be hoping to turn the seat red for the first time, in a constituency which covers Burgess Hill, East Grinstead, Haywards Heath, and the Mid Sussex Villages.
“make their vote count”
Posting this message via X, Dave Rowntree said, “I’m absolutely thrilled to have been selected as the Labour candidate for Mid Sussex! Now the work begins”.
“I’m delighted to have the opportunity to become Labour first Mid Sussex MP”, he contined. “Residents have their best chance in a generation to make their vote count and return a Labour MP to parliament.
“The Tories have run out of ideas, and the Lib Dems have run out of steam”, he stated. “I’m running for parliament to provide the energy and vision the area so desperately needs”.
Dave Rowntree will stand against fellow musician Tom Gray from the rock band Gomez, who was selected as a Labour candidate for the Brighton Pavilion constituency.
Whether or not Rowntree will remain in Blur if he is elected, remains unclear.
Last Summer, Dave Rowntree was also reunited with Blur, on their comeback show at Wembley last year.
This also saw him join up with Graham Coxon, Damon Albarn, and Alex James, as the band released their album ‘The Ballad Of Darren’.
It also marked the band’s first release since 2015. They had also previously hit top spot with Parklife (1994), The Great Escape (1995), Blur (1997), 13 (1999), Think Tank (2003).
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