Bath Quaker becomes local councillor
a Quaker from Bath has been elected as councillor for the Widcombe and Lyncombe ward of Bath and North East Somerset Council
A Bath Friend has been elected as a local Liberal Democrat councillor after returning to politics three years ago to help stop the rise of the Conservative Party in Bath.
Winston Duguid, councillor for the Widcombe and Lyncombe ward of Bath and North East Somerset Council, was elected on 2 May on a manifesto promising to create a holistic plan aligning business, housing, transport and the community to meet a carbon neutral goal. Writing in the Bath Quaker newsletter, the former managing director said he wasn’t sure how to get involved in politics until ‘a path evolved’.
He said: ‘At short notice MP Wera Hobhouse and others asked me to be her agent in the 2017 election and… there was some Lib Dem pressure in the summer of 2018 to run for councillor in 2019 in the ward that I lived.’
Winston Duguid said he is particularly motivated by sustainable development, and has introduced and managed ‘a successful carbon reduction project between 2004 and 2007’.
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