Comedian Eddie Izzard joined the Labour campaign trail on Monday by spending the day at a Q&A with Hove candidate Peter Kyle.
Wearing a smart skirt-suit and red lipstick, the London Mayor hopeful answered questions from the audience on corporate tax avoidance, nuclear disarmament, tuition fees and schools.
He said that his cross-dressing habit might not get approval from senior MPs, but that the UK is a “much more progressive place” than it was 30 years ago.
He reaffirmed his pro-Europe stance by opposing the idea of an in/out referendum, which he called a “backwards” move.
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Speaking of his upbringing in Bexhill, East Sussex, Izzard told the audience that he was the only person in St Bede’s Prep School and Eastbourne College who grew up supporting Labour:
‘My dad was always Labour so you do what your dad does […] when I was at school for the Heath-Wilson election, I assumed everybody voted Labour – I would speak to the other pupils and they would all go ‘no my family votes Conservative.’
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He also announced that he could consider standing as a Sussex MP at the 2020 elections, adding that Labour has ‘opportunities in Brighton and Hastings but a lot of Sussex tends to go Tory’.
The next step of his campaign trail is in Derbyshire, where he is currently spending the day, talking to potential voters:
First time voter with @eddieizzard who will be voting Labour on May 7th in Nuneaton @UKLabour @WMLabour #VoteLabour pic.twitter.com/oMDzRoQrxw
— Victoria Fowler (@Victoria_Fowler) April 1, 2015
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