The Conservatives have selected a 48-year-old businesswoman and army veteran as the party’s candidate for Hove and Portslade in the general election on Thursday 4 July.
Carline Deal, 48, said that her career spanned more than 25 years in private banking, project management, business strategy and continuity planning.
For the past six years, she said, she had worked in medical technology on product and research and development – and health and wellness through yoga.
The mother of four runs London technology company Bonum iDeas and two yoga businesses – Trinity Yoga, in Beckenham, south east London, and a Young Yogis franchise, also in London.
She said: “I am also a military veteran, having served under American and British commands, the UN and NATO during my time in the forces and held both security sensitive and diplomatic roles.”
She has an honours degree in business management, studied for a masters degree in applied neuroscience at King’s College London and serves as a director of the British Sub-Aqua Club.
Last year she stood for a council seat in Beckenham in the local elections in the London Borough of Bromley but was beaten by the Liberal Democrats.
She will face an even bigger political challenge trying to overhaul the 17,044 Labour majority at the last election when Peter Kyle won the seat for a third time.
The other candidates look likely to be Sophie Broadbent (Green), Michael Wang (Liberal Democrat), Martin Hess (Reform UK) and Tanushka Marah (independent).
I love the fact that Brighton and hove attracts the bizarrely named to stand as local politicians. Nothing in the league of Nimrod Ping or Ken Bodfish but Wang for the Lib Dums 🤣 And Hess for the Nazis, sorry Reform Party. You could not make this up🤣🤣
AHH good to see a great connection to the ward as well …. Oh no there’s nothing mentioned at all anyone good works conservative party
So a candidate who has full-time employment and doesn’t have any links to the area. Obviously a token nomination !?
Probably not worth her unpacking her bags really.
Failed London councillor to stand as MP for somewhere in Kent, or was if Hampshire, where is Hove again?
Paper candidate
Quite agree.
No chance of my vote. Not from the ward, doesn’t seem to stick at anything and has been involved in a corrupt banking/finance system.
Wish her luck. Would vote for her if she was not a they but labour
Tory not they u mean
A plague on all their houses!
She is clearly a very capable woman that has achieved more than Peter Kyle did before becoming an MP. Peter Kyle is a nice man but I am struggling to see what he has done to improve Hove.
It is obvious though that the Conservatives just don’t care about Hove as a ward as she has no connection to the city whatever. They should have chosen a better candidate. The only candidate that lives in Hove and runs a successful business is the Reform candidate.
Why are people using the word ‘ward’ ?
MPs represent constituencies. Councillors represent wards.
And a reminder there is no legal requirement for an MP let alone a candidate to live in the constituency.
If you think living in the constituency is an important factor in who you vote for then that’s your decision.
But what if the only ‘local’ candidate(s) have views that are the total opposite of yours? Still going to vote for them because they are ‘local’?
I’d like to hope it is but one of many different factors that people base their decision on.