JUST months after being selected to fight for the Stourbridge constituency seat, UKIP’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate Dr Peter G Le Maistre has bowed out of the race.
UKIP’s Stourbridge Constituency Branch confirmed in a statement that Dr Le Maistre, who was only appointed in February to take on sitting Tory MP Margot James at the next General Election, has “regrettably had to resign his post due to a change in personal circumstances”.
The 68-year-old researcher and volunteer counsellor, originally from Jersey, said it was “only fair on the people of Stourbridge that they had a local man to represent the constituency” and that he hoped a replacement candidate could be found soon “to continue the growing UKIP support in the Stourbridge constituency”.
Dr Le Maistre, who moved to Stourbridge in April 2012, was previously a member of the Liberal Democrats and stood as an independent candidate in Jersey’s Deputies election in 2005, but joined UKIP three years ago.
He will now be seeking a UKIP PPC post in the South West of England.
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