Colin Ford and DA Brown (Letters, October 29) take Hove Tories to task for choosing someone who does not live in the constituency to be their parliamentary candidate.
Local knowledge is desirable but should not be the sole criterion.
Messers Ford and Brown might also reflect for a moment that if their view on candidate selection had been insisted upon in days gone by, Britain would have been deprived of arguably its greatest Prime Minister.
Winston Churchill touted himself around the country in search of a constituency and served as MP for Epping, Oldham and Dundee.
-Peter Lilley, Hove
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