The Bow Group welcomes the victory for the Conservative Party in The Bow Group’s adopted London Assembly seat of Havering & Redbridge. This was one of the critical areas Boris had to win to be returned to City Hall.With The Bow Group’s help, Roger Evans was re-elected to serve Havering & Redbridge; as the Assembly Member, by taking 37% of the vote in what was a close run race against a Labour candidate who gaining 34% of the vote and the UKIP Mayoral Candidate; Lawrence Webb, coming in third place with only 6.7% of the vote in this Assembly seat.Boris Johnson won the area with 51.9% of first preference votes and 16.4% second preference votes against Ken Livingstone 34.2% first preference and 16.4% second preference votes. With Boris winning here; by a strong margin, saw Boris being returned to City Hall with 37.9% of the London wide vote against Ken’s 36.0%.As the oldest centre-right think-tank in the UK The Bow Group aim is and has always been over the past 60 years, to create debate and policy ideas within the Conservative Party to advance the Party intellectually. The Bow Group recognises the only way to see it’s policies to become reality is to have Conservative’s in the elected offices of the UK and The Bow Group will always do all it can to see this happen.The Bow Group would like to thank Ben Balliger, The Bow Group’s Events Director and one of the Back Boris 2012 co-ordinators in the area as well as the Bow Group’s friend and supporter Frank Young for there tireless and devoted work in this must win part of London.
“Politics will lead you down many paths, but a conservative and a patriot will never be far from the Bow Group. Against the tide of globalism, liberalism, and Marxism the Bow Group stands resolute.
The Bow Group is where conservatism begins and ends in Britain, there is nowhere else like it.”
Ben Harris-Quinney, Bow Group Chairman