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Thursday, 7 November 2019

Ex-Labour MP to run as independent after being dropped over LGBT row

Roger Godsiff had backed protests against Birmingham school’s teaching policy

A former Labour MP has confirmed he will run as an independent in the general election after the party withdrew its support for him after he backed protesters in an LGBT teaching row.

Roger Godsiff, 73, who had been the Labour MP for Birmingham Hall Green, was told this week by the national executive committee (NEC) that he would not be endorsed as a candidate in the December poll and someone else would run in his place.

Related: ‘We can’t give in’: the Birmingham school on the frontline of anti-LGBT protests

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