Former Selwyn students had mixed fortunes in the General Election on May 7th. Two of our alumni were elected to the House of Commons. Graham Stuart (below) won for the
Conservatives in Beverley and Holderness, his third victory in that seat. Graham was chairman of the select committee on education in the last parliament, and he
hosted a reception at the Commons for the college’s boathouse appeal in the Spring of this year.
Newly-elected in Ilford North was Wes Streeting (below) for Labour. He is a former JCR president at Selwyn and went on to become president of the National Union of
Students. His performance was one of Labour’s best on a poor night for the party: Wes overturned a Conservative majority of 5000 to win by 589 votes.
But two alumni - both Liberal Democrats - lost their seats. Simon Hughes, one of the best known Lib Dems and justice minister in the last government, was beaten in
his Bermondsey seat after 32 years as an MP; and Roger Williams was defeated in Brecon and Radnorshire, which he had held since 2001.
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