Stephen Twigg comes to Putney

The scene at Enfield Town Hall in the early hours of Friday 2nd May 1997, when Michael Portillo was ousted from parliament in the Labour landslide, has been voted the third most popular TV clip of all time.

The man who beat Portillo, Stephen Twigg, came to Putney last week to talk to local members. During his eight years in parliament, Stephen was an education minister and Deputy Leader of the House of Commons. Since 2005 he has been Director of the Foreign Policy Centre and Chair of Progress, the progressive thinktank and pressure group of which I'm also a member.

Stephen talked to members and answered questions on the path to an historic fourth term of office for Labour for over an hour and it was really kind of him to visit; especially as he's now our parliamentary candidate for the Liverpool constituency of West Derby.