{"id":83218,"date":"2023-12-17T15:56:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T15:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=83218"},"modified":"2023-12-17T15:56:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T15:56:20","slug":"eddie-izzard-loses-bid-to-be-labours-candidate-for-brighton-pavilion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/eddie-izzard-loses-bid-to-be-labours-candidate-for-brighton-pavilion\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Izzard loses bid to be Labour's candidate for Brighton Pavilion"},"content":{"rendered":"
Suzy Eddie Izzard has failed in her bid to become Labour’s candidate for Brighton Pavilion at the next general election.<\/p>\n
The stand-up comedian was beaten by music industry activist Tom Gray, The Argus reports, marking the second time that the 61-year-old has been defeated in her attempts to stand as an MP.<\/p>\n
Izzard, who identifies as a gender-fluid trans woman, also failed to be selected as Labour’s candidate in Sheffield Central last year\u00a0when local councillor Abtisam Mohamed was chosen instead.<\/p>\n
In a social media video announcing her candidacy in August, Izzard had hailed Brighton as an ‘open-minded’ city that is ‘welcoming to all’ and pointed to her ‘roots’ in Sussex.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It came after the Greens lost control of Brighton and Hove City Council as Labour retook power in the city at the local elections in May.<\/p>\n
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Suzy Eddie Izzard has failed in her bid to become Labour’s candidate for Brighton Pavilion at the next general election<\/p>\n
The current Brighton Pavilion MP is long-serving Green politician Caroline Lucas, who is standing down at the next general election.<\/p>\n
Izzard has previously spoken about her gender-fluid identity and requests to be referred to with she\/her pronouns.<\/p>\n
Her previous bid to become a Labour candidate in Sheffield was marked by a furious ‘transphobic’ row.<\/p>\n
Rosie Duffield, Labour MP for Canterbury, used a fringe event at the party’s conference in Liverpool last year to threaten to quit the party if Izzard was allowed onto an all-women shortlist.<\/p>\n
She also said: ‘Eddie Izzard is not a woman.’<\/p>\n
Last month it also emerged that Duffield could be blocked from defending her Canterbury seat because she is the subject of an anti-Semitism probe by Labour.<\/p>\n
The party began an investigation into her support for a trans activist’s tweet about Izzard.<\/p>\n
Ms Duffield ‘liked’ a sardonic post by Father Ted and The IT Crowd creator Graham Linehan, which he made in response to Izzard’s comments that as a trans woman he probably would have been ‘murdered by the Nazis’.<\/p>\n
The Irish comic had replied: ‘Ah yes, the Nazis, famously bigoted against straight white men with blonde (sic) hair.’<\/p>\n
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\u00a0Izzard (pictured) has previously spoken about her gender-fluid identity and requests to be referred to with she\/her pronouns<\/p>\n
But supporters of Duffield suggested the probe was politically motivated because she was a rare transgender sceptic in the Labour Party. She is also a deputy chairwoman of the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n
While she is being investigated she cannot be added to the list of possible candidates in Canterbury at the next election.<\/p>\n
Izzard is a former member of Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee and has previously flirted with a bid to become London mayor.<\/p>\n
She spent part of her childhood in Bexhill-on-Sea, around 30 miles from Brighton on the South Coast.<\/p>\n
Izzard introduced her new feminine name in March which she said she had wanted to use since she was 10 years old.<\/p>\n
Eddie has used she\/her pronouns since 2020, but ‘doesn’t mind’ if people use him\/her pronouns to address her.<\/p>\n
She said: ‘I’m Eddie. There’s another name I’m going to add in as well, which is Suzy, which I wanted to be since I was 10. I’m going to be Suzy Eddie Izzard.’<\/p>\n
Izzard shot to fame\u00a0as a comedian who cross-dressed, but now identifies as a gender-fluid trans woman.<\/p>\n
Just days ago, she posted on her campaign page on X: ‘I’ve lived a life full of extraordinary chapters, but representing Brighton would be the most profound yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘This city’s vibrant soul has always inspired me.\u00a0It would be my honour to be your voice in Parliament.’<\/p>\n
She also said that she had been a ‘voice for trans people’ for 40 years but ‘now I want to take that voice to Parliament’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Labour’s chances of winning back the\u00a0Brighton Pavilion seat they last held in 2010 – prior to Ms Lucas winning the constituency for the first time at that year’s general election – will have been buoyed by their performance in recent local elections.<\/p>\n
Labour won an overall majority on Brighton and Hove City Council in May to replace the Green administration.<\/p>\n
Sian Berry, former Green co-leader, will be the party’s candidate to succeed Ms Lucas in Brighton Pavilion at the next general election.<\/p>\n