Peter Thornton, Liberal Democrat, Penrith & The Border

Name: Peter Thornton

Candidate for: Penrith & The Border

Party: Liberal Democrat

Votes: 12,830

Profile:

(Submitted by candidate)

I was born in Kendal and educated at Kendal Grammar School. I worked in industry and as a teacher before starting my own business running photographic studios and laboratories.

Married to Hazel, we have three children, also 3 grandchildren with another on the way.

Having sold the photo business we run a small local food enterprise trading at Summer music festivals and agricultural shows.

We live in Longsleddale on a smallholding of 25 acres and have a small herd of Dexter cattle.

I’ve a wide experience of life and of business, trading through the last two recessions.

I’m standing for Penrith and The Border because I think it’s time that we elected a Cumbrian to Parliament.

We need someone who understands and relates to ordinary people and who knows what its like to do a normal job, and to run a small business.

Penrith and The Border is a forgotten constituency, ignored by the other two parties who don’t understand how we live here.

Liberal Democrats are now the party of the countryside and if elected then I will work tirelessly to bring our rural issues to Westminster and to bring jobs and industry to our constituency.

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