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Maggie Smith |
How a labour vote was lost
Maggie Smith, 48, who works in the NHS, has lived in Kiln Place estate, Gospel Oak, for eight years with her three children and husband and is chairwoman of the tenants’ committee.
A lifelong Labour supporter, she voted Conservative for the first time in last week’s elections after the Tories promised to renovate the outdated heating system on her estate immediately.
Labour had said they would fix it by 2012, although Raj Chada, former leader of the council and Gospel Oak ward councillor, later changed the date to 2008. Mrs Smith said: “It was really hard for me but heating is my priority. My kids were really against voting Tory, and I do worry about the Conservatives’ stance on social housing – whether they will put the rent up – but if I’ve made a mistake I have to live with it. I also know Lulu Mitchell, the newly-elected Tory councillor, and she said she’d resign if our heating isn’t fixed.” |
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