Liberal Democrats in Haringey have chosen local councillor and Deputy Leader Wayne Hoban as their Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Tottenham constituency.The choice of a successful local campaigner is a boost for the party with a General Election expected next year.

Wayne Hoban stood in the Enfield & Haringey GLA constituency in June of this year – and topped the poll in the Hornsey and Wood Green area. He stood at the last general election in neighbouring Southgate, and overturned a previously safe Labour ward when elected to Haringey Council in 2002.

Mr Hoban is a superintendent radiographer working in the National Health Service. In recent years, he has also been a co-ordinator of the radiography service to the United Nations mortuary in Bosnia, Croatiaand Kosovo established by the UN International Crime Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Wayne Hoban comments:

“With Lynne Featherstone in Hornsey and Wood Green, and myself in Tottenham, we now have a complete Parliamentary team for the borough. I am very much looking forward to campaign in Tottenham in the coming months. Labour, both nationally and locally, has promised much for the area, but has never delivered.”

Lynne Featherstone adds:

“Congratulations to Wayne on his selection. I have worked with Wayne for ten years now in Haringey, and he has always played a vital role in our success. We are looking forward to the challenge of repeating our success in the west of the borough in Tottenham, which has been just as badly let down by Labour.”

Notes:

Wayne Hoban is the deputy leader of the 16-strong Liberal Democrat group on Haringey Council

In May 2002 he was elected to Haringey Council, winning a previously safe Labour seat in Alexandra ward. He served as Lib Dem health spokesman before becoming deputy leader in November 2002.

He has helped to establish two local residents’ associations, the Friends of Palace Gates Triangle and the Friends of Albert Road Recreation Ground, and sits on their committees.

Wayne works at the Royal Free Hospital as a Superintendent Radiographer. He has developed considerable expertise in industrial relations, employment law and NHS reorganisation through his continuing involvement with public service bodies and organisations. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Homerton NHS Trust.

He is a founder member of the Trauma Imaging Group and also the recently launched Association of Forensic Radiographers. He has been appointed honorary lecturer to several UK universities.

Wayne has helped with the work to bring war criminals to justice with his role co-ordinating the radiography service to the United Nations mortuary in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo.

Wayne has enjoyed a long association with The London Sailing Project, a charity which takes disabled people sailing around the south coast.He has sailed with the project almost every year since 1991.

Wayne was born in Edinburgh in 1952. Educated at Drumlanrig Primary School and Hawick High School, he studied at Ipswich Civic College in 1970-3. He then took a Diagnostic Radiography Diploma at the Ipswich School of Radiography.

He has been a police lay visitor and is a school governor (Bounds Green Infants). He is a long standing member of Friends of the Earth and in the 2001 general election he stood for the Lib Dems in Enfield Southgate.