BARONESS SHIRLEY WILLIAMS ADOPTS JULIA GOLDSWORTHY FOR LIB DEMS
March 29, 2010 5:30 PM
Julia and Shirley at the adoption meeting
Baroness Shirley Williams was the guest of honour at a special meeting to adopt Julia Goldsworthy as the Lib Dem candidate for Camborne and Redruth.
Over 100 people gathered in the Opie Theatre at Cornwall College to hear a speech by the highly-respected Lib Dem peer on Friday. Baroness Williams told the audience that Julia had risen from being an obscure Parliamentary candidate to being a rising star of national politics in just five years.
"You are very lucky to have someone with such a strong reputation across the country as your local candidate here in Camborne and Redruth," she said.
"Julia has been a real star performer in her first term as an MP, both in terms of the work she has done locally and on the national stage. This is a great achievement, and one that David Penhaligon himself would have been proud of."
Julia said: "The reason I came into politics was because I was fed up with Cornwall being treated like an irrelevance by consecutive Labour and Conservative governments.
"Along with my Lib Dem colleagues across Cornwall, I believe we have made a difference over the past five years, with more funding for our NHS, lower water bills for the first time since privatisation and legislation on our sustainable communities.
"The challenge for us here in Cornwall is to try and build on this and deliver more local accountability, a greater say for local people and a fairer deal on funding our public services."
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