Third Labour councillor defects to Socialist Labour Party in Barking and Dagenham
Published:
12:42 PM April 2, 2014
Updated:
7:03 AM October 14, 2020
Cllr Gerald Vincent - Credit: Archant
Labour have lost a third councillor to Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party.
Cllr Gerald Vincent follows in the footsetps of Cllrs Barry Poulton and Jim McDermott in defecting to the trade-union supporting party.
The Heath councillor is the seventh Labour casualty in as many months, with four ex-members having recently stepped in the opposite direction to join Nigel Farage’s UK Independence party.
SLP president Andrew Jordan said it was “great” to have Cllr Vincent join his party.
