Georgia Meadows has been selected as Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate (PPC) for the Witney Constituency. Twenty-two year old Georgia, who is currently Witney’s deputy mayor, could become Labour’s youngest ever MP if she wins the seat at the forthcoming general election.

Georgia described her selection as “mind boggling” and believes she has a “real chance of winning” in spite of the incumbent Conservative MP, Robert Courts, securing a majority of 15,177 in the last general election in 2019.

“It was definitely a good Leap Day for me,” she commented. “It was the most exciting news I’d ever read. I was almost doubtful I’d make the shortlist and then, I’m suddenly the candidate for Witney.”

Whilst winning the Witney seat in the general election, which is predicted to be called in the autumn, could be seen as a challenge by some, Georgia is convinced Labour has a “real chance of winning”.

“We’ve an interesting situation here in Witney because, since the 2019 election, the Conservatives have lost many MPs in recent by-elections,” she reflected. “The amount of stuff that’s happened since 2019. The entire pandemic. We’ve had unlawful prorogations of Parliament and we’ve just had massive scandals from Boris Johnson, not to mention Liz Truss’s disastrous forty-four days in office. It’s been a disaster for West Oxfordshire and the country as a whole.”

“In Witney, the independent political forecaster Electoral Calculus, is now consistently predicting a win for Labour, and there are several other polling sites putting us in second or first. Georgia continued, “In spite of what Liberal Democrats have been saying, we’re in it to win it. I think we do actually have a real chance of winning the seat. It’s exciting.”

Amongst Georgia’s key campaign priorities will be: improving local NHS services that have suffered from massive real terms cuts over the last decade; fixing broken care systems; forcing water companies to stop pumping sewage into local rivers; and restoring a rail link to Witney.