Britain’s Home Minister Suella Braverman won the contest for the party’s candidacy

Britain’s Indian-origin Home Minister Suella Braverman has defeated her Conservative Party MP colleague to be elected as the candidate for the new constituency after delimitation. Senior cabinet minister Braverman, 43, faced off with colleague MP Flick Drummond in an internal party vote on Wednesday. The party voted on who would contest the new proposed constituency of Fareham and Waterlooville in Hampshire at the next general election. The next election is expected to be held in 2024.

Under England’s Boundary Commission, the seat of Fareham in south-east England is being reassigned to Braverman and the Mayon Valley of Drummond is being eliminated under the new parliamentary boundaries. Braverman is said to have defeated Drummond by 77 votes to 54 in the poll. “I am honored and humbled to be chosen by members of the Conservative Party to be my parliamentary candidate for the new Fareham and Waterlooville constituency,” Braverman tweeted after voting.

Braverman said, “I would like to thank my parliamentary colleague Flick Drummond for the excellent work he has done for the people of the Mayon Valley.” Till “will remain MP for Mayon Valley.” Drummond won the seat in 2019. The voting to choose a candidate comes as a number of changes have been proposed to constituencies across England as part of the 2023 boundary review, with final recommendations due to be presented to the UK Parliament by July 1.