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# Former Council Leader throws hat into ring
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/former-council-leader-throws-hat-into-ring/
- Published: 2013-02-15T16:13:28.000Z
- Updated: 2013-02-18T14:36:24.000Z
- Description: Simon Burgess, former leader of Brighton & Hove City Council and a former leader of the Labour group is standing for selection as the Labour candidate in Hove & Portlade at the coming parliamentary elections which should be in 2015. Labour’s NEC has decided that Brighton Kemptown and Brighton Pavili
- Author: Besi
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![Simon Burgess](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/web-60068.jpg)

Simon Burgess

Simon Burgess, former leader of Brighton & Hove City Council and a former leader of the Labour group is standing for selection as the Labour candidate in Hove & Portlade at the coming parliamentary elections which should be in 2015.

Labour’s NEC has decided that Brighton Kemptown and Brighton Pavilion will be *‘all women’* shortlists and that Hove & Portslade will be ‘*Open’*.

The selections will take place over the coming few months.

Simon has lived in Hove for seven years, he works at a Deaf School in Brighton, is a trustee of a youth club and he chairs the board of trustees at The Sussex Beacon.

**Simon said:**

> *“It has been refreshing spending a couple of years out of local politics, focusing on my work with a number of local charities. Hove & Portslade is my local patch and if selected I would particularly want to stand as a champion for the NHS, small businesses and charities – having worked in all of them over many years. My passions remain tackling prejudice, discrimination and social injustice.”*