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Larry Sanders, the brother of former-US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, is running to replace David Cameron in his vacated parliamentary constituency.

Mr Sanders was selected last night as the Green Party candidate for Witney, Mr Cameron's seat in Oxfordshire.

Mr Sanders, the 82-year-old elder brother of the firebrand Vermont senator, is the Green Party's Health Spoksperson.

He was born in Brooklyn and moved to Britain in the late 60s after studying at Harvard Law School.

Mr Sanders joined the Greens in 2001 after leaving the Labour Party under Tony Blair 's leadership. He represented the party as a County Councillor for eight years until 2013.

In the last General Election, he ran for the party in the nearby Oxford West and Abingdon seat, coming fifth with 4.4% of the vote.

He'll be up against Robert Courts, the 37-year-old Tory candidate for the seat.

Mr Courts, a barrister, was also selected last night, and has been a West Oxfordshire district councillor since 2014.

He was selected from a shortlist of three, which included former Cameron aide Natasha Whitmill.

Mr Sanders said: "The major political parties are in disarray. The policies of the last 30 years, shifting resources and power from the majority to the richest, culminated in the illegality and greed which crashed the economy in 2008. The Green Party has pledged to make Britain a fairer and less divided nation.

“We need to show that we don't want Britain to be the most unequal country in Europe. We don't want unmet health needs to increase when we already have too few doctors, nurses, and hospital beds.

“We don't want the Government to impose unworkable contracts on 50,000 precious doctors, when it is clear that the supposed reason for the contract, a seven day hospital service, can't be done at present funding.

“This is a rich, capable and decent country. We can do better."