COLOURFUL former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott’s son David is bringing the Battle Bus to Weaver Vale as he bids to become Labour parliamentary candidate.
The former BBC journalist David – whose grandad and uncle worked at BICC in Helsby and has another uncle and aunt who went to Helsby Grammar School – faces an anxious wait before Labour announce tomorrow night who Mike Hall’s successor will be.
Fighting Prescott junior for the chance to represent the party are former Ellesmere Port and Neston council leader Justin Madders, Halton Brook councillor and Labour constituency secretary John Stockton and Labour party policy officer Ben Johnson.
Each candidate met Labour members in the region at a hustings meeting on Sunday and candidates will find out at 7pm on Friday in Frodsham Community Centre who has been elected following a postal vote this week.
David, 39, of Hull, said: “I have long and deep Cheshire roots and I have always seen it as my family home.
“I want to be the voice of Weaver Vale in Westminster, not the voice of Westminster in Weaver Vale.
“I’m my own man, not my old man. I have campaigned and done things by myself but you do pick up a few things.
“I have had the best possible political apprenticeship, I have known nothing else and I know exactly what it’s like, I know how to do the job.
“It puts me in good stead and a good position to really start delivering for people in Weaver Vale from day one.”
