O’Loan selected as SDLP candidate for general election

Councillor Declan OLoan has been selected as the SDLP candidate in North Antrim for the May Westminster election.

He said: “I am deeply honoured to have been selected by the SDLP as the candidate in this year’s Westminster election. I plan to repay the faith they have shown in me with a fighting campaign to bring fair representation opposing the cuts that have damaged business, families and communities here.

“It has been my great privilege to work with the people of North Antrim as a public servant for many years. Working with struggling families, new businesses and communities emerging from conflict has given me the strongest basis for representing people in this constituency.

“Voters now have a simple choice. The next parliament will choose to embrace prosperity or austerity. Five more years of Tory government, propped up by the DUP, inflicting more cuts and more pain on people here. Or a new, strong government which puts people first. The SDLP will hold the balance of power along with the other parties of social democracy.”

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