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By CHARLOTTE CHAMBERS
 

Glenda Jackson with campaigner Gene Adams in February 2005


Cllr Piers Wauchope with campaigners on Monday
Tories and Labour square up to claim Post Office campaign

A ROW has broken out between the leader of Camden’s Conservative group Piers Wauchope and Hampstead and Highgate MP Glenda Jackson after they both backed the same campaign for a new post office in Belsize Park.
Councillor Wauchope and his Primrose Hill colleague Cllr Jonny Bucknell spent Monday lunchtime collecting signatures for a petition they plan to send to the Post Office, asking why promises for a new branch – made by the Post Office when it closed the Haverstock Hill counter in 2004 – have not been kept.
The area’s current branch in Belsize Lane is due to shut in two week’s time and the Post Office had previously promised they would find a replacement before it was closed for good.
But Glenda Jackson, who marched with members of the Belsize Residents Association last year to keep the Belsize Lane branch open, has also been campaigning on the same issue – and both are now accusing the other of being hypocritical. Cllr Wauchope, who stood against Ms Jackson in the 2005 general election, said Ms Jackson had voted to close 2,500 Post Offices in 2001. He said: “She wanted to close these types of Post offices down.”
Ms Jackson, who met with Post office representatives three weeks ago to step up the pressure on them to find a new office in Haverstock Hill, said previous Conservative governments had failed to protect the sub-post offices. She said: “When you think of how many they closed when they were in power, it would make you laugh if it wasn’t so serious.”
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