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Gloucester is set to become the very first place in the whole of the UK in which Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party will be standing candidates in a local government election.

The Brexit Party, which topped the polls in five out of the six Gloucestershire constituencies, including in Gloucester, in the recent elections to the European Parliament, will be contesting the by-elections in the Podsmead and Barnwood wards of Gloucester City Council which are scheduled to take place on Thursday July 25.

Stuart Adair, the Brexit Party co-ordinator for Gloucestershire, said: “We are absolutely delighted that Gloucester will be the very first place in the entire country in which the Brexit Party will be fighting a local government election.

“Gloucester voted overwhelmingly for Leave three years ago in the 2016 EU Referendum, and the city confirmed that it hasn’t changed its mind at the European elections just a few weeks ago.

“We have got two excellent and well known local candidates in Rob McCormick (Podsmead) and Pete Sheehy (Barnwood), and Rob and Pete will be campaigning both on local issues and on the fact that almost exactly three years after the Referendum the Brexit Party is the only realistic choice for Leave voters in a Leave voting city.

“By voting for their Brexit Party candidate in these by elections the electors of Podsmead and Barnwood will be able to send a clear and unambiguous message all the way to the corridors of power in Westminster that 'enough is enough', and that the Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem establishment cartel need finally to start listening to the people, both in Gloucester and in the rest of the UK.”

The Barnwood by-election is to vote in a new councillor for the area following the tragic death of former Mayor of Gloucester Lise Noakes, who represented the ward for the Conservatives.

The Podsmead by-election will vote in a replacement for Labour's Deborah Smith who stood down in May.

Full list of candidates in the Barnwood by-election:

Ashley Bowkett, Lib Dem

Chris Clee, Lab

Jonathan Ingleby, Green

Fred Ramsey, Con

Peter Sheehy, Brexit Party

Matthew Young, UKIP

Full list of candidates in the Podsmead by-election: