Westminster North: declaration of love

From West End Extra : Speaking to voters, it's hard to find people willing to knock [Karen] Buck. She has a scrapbook of local triumphs including stopping a number of nursery school closures, securing money from central government for the council for numerous voluntary projects - no mean feat for an authority still tainted by the ghost of Shirley Porter - and an open-door policy for constituents struggling with housing and welfare problems. I had the same experience when I visited the constituency yesterday, making a podcast (coming soon). In Church Street market a woman sick and tired of the Labour government told me that Buck would get her vote in spite of that. "I love Karen Buck. I love her. She got my disabled mum a walk-in shower put in her flat." Whatever virtues her Tory opponent Joanne Cash may turn out to have, Londoners need MPs like Buck.