A counsel at Latham & Watkins is standing for UKIP in the general election.
Tim Page, who is a counsel at the US firm's London office, is standing for parliament in the Wiltshire constituency of Devizes. The lawyer, a former Clifford Chance partner who spent 14 years at the homegrown British firm before he left to work for foreigners, will need all the luck of the Irish* to win the Tory safe seat. UKIP candidate David Pollitt came a distant second in the 2015 general election, taking a 15% share of the Devizes vote compared to the Conservative's 58%. Pollitt recently lost his place as a member of Wiltshire Council, telling the Times before he was jettisoned, “Everyone knows I’m not racist. I’m not xenophobic either".
RollOnFriday put a series of questions to corporate specialist Page for the benefit of his potential constituents and Latham & Watkins colleagues, but he did not respond. So we simply wrote the answers for him:
A spokesman for Latham & Watkins declined to comment.
*the Northern Irish, not the EU-loving republicans whose luck is paid for by decent, hardworking British taxpayers.
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Tim Page, who is a counsel at the US firm's London office, is standing for parliament in the Wiltshire constituency of Devizes. The lawyer, a former Clifford Chance partner who spent 14 years at the homegrown British firm before he left to work for foreigners, will need all the luck of the Irish* to win the Tory safe seat. UKIP candidate David Pollitt came a distant second in the 2015 general election, taking a 15% share of the Devizes vote compared to the Conservative's 58%. Pollitt recently lost his place as a member of Wiltshire Council, telling the Times before he was jettisoned, “Everyone knows I’m not racist. I’m not xenophobic either".
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RollOnFriday put a series of questions to corporate specialist Page for the benefit of his potential constituents and Latham & Watkins colleagues, but he did not respond. So we simply wrote the answers for him:
A spokesman for Latham & Watkins declined to comment.
*the Northern Irish, not the EU-loving republicans whose luck is paid for by decent, hardworking British taxpayers.
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People voting to leave a complex supranational organisation on the basis of feelings are the stupidest sort of losers
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19/05/2017 08:39
Or just taking the michael like Rof does out of everything. Christ you lot are thin-skinned.
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