Now let’s go win this thing…….
We’ve smashed through the £20,000 my friends, in just two weeks!
Over 700 of you from across Eastbourne & Willingdon have donated to my snap-election campaign to be your MP again.
Thank you all so much. Truly.
Now let’s go win this thing…….
—Stephen Lloyd, 4 May 2017, standing as the Lib Dem MP at the snap general election on June 8.
FACTCHECK: Stephen Lloyd was the Liberal Democrat MP for Eastbourne from 2010 to 2015. Following his defeat on 7 May 2015 by Conservative candidate Caroline Ansell, he announced he would retire from politics. He said he “never had as much fun as being MP for Eastbourne and Willingdon”. During his campaign in the 2015 Election. a theme emerged on posters, “Everyone knows someone who has been helped by Stephen”. He lost his seat by 733 votes. On 15 July 2016 Stephen Lloyd announced that he had decided to re-stand as the MP for Eastbourne in the next General Election. In the snap General Election called for 8 June 2017, he announced on 4 May to his friends on Facebook that he had smashed through the £20,000 fund raising target in just two weeks. Back Eastbourne, Back Lloyd, his Facebook page, on 4 May 2017 had 11,723 friends.
