Labour Candidate Reflects on the Election and His Party now in Power

Tunbridge Wells candidate Hugo Pound discusses the national Labour win.

Mike Martin from the Liberal Democrats won the seat for Tunbridge Wells, taking it from the Conservatives with an 8,000 majority.

Hugo Pound stood for Labour, now the government across the country.

West Kent Radio news editor, Martin Webber, spoke to Tunbridge Wells Labour candidate Hugo Pound and asked how it felt that his party has formed the government.

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