Stroud political career is really going places (From Sutton Guardian)

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Stroud political career is really going places

8:30am Monday 2nd August 2010 in News By Julia Kennard

For sale: Chez Stroud

A failed Tory candidate has put her £650,000 five-bedroom house up for sale.

Philippa Stroud moved to a rented property in Langley Park Road in 2007 after she was selected as the Conservative candidate for Sutton and Cheam.

Four months before the 2010 election – which she lost to Liberal Democrat MP Paul Burstow – she bought a stylish property on Mulgrave Road and moved in with her husband and three children.

Less than two months on Mrs Stroud, who has a second address in Fulham, has put the detached home up for sale.

It is not known where the family are now moving to.

During the election Mrs Stroud vehemently hit out at those who suggested she did not live in the constituency.

Former UKIP councillor David Pickles said the latest move “makes you question her original commitment to the borough.”

A neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: “It does make you cynical. When I first met her she said she ‘loved the house’.”

After the election Mrs Stroud was awarded a runner-up prize when MP Iain Duncan Smith appointed her his special adviser at the Department for Work and Pensions.

As director of Duncan Smith’s influential think tank, the Centre for Social Justice, Mrs Stroud has already played a significant part in forming the Conservatives’ social policy.

Mrs Stroud previously stood for election in 2005 at Birmingham Ladywood, coming third with 10.6 per cent of the votes.

Comments(5)

theavengers says...
10:14am Mon 2 Aug 10

Maybe the rudeness and underhanded political tactics she experienced showed her how Suttonites behave and if I could move from here I know I would. Nice house, bad location. Things that were done by her opposition in the past election were more than a little underhanded and not called for. I'm not saying I favoured any one candidate but she was certainly driven out. I'm very surprised that so many Suttonites voted Liberal again after seeing how they waste our money, they bully local business' (like mine, such as wanting increases in business taxes thus driving business' out of the borough and threatening owners if they don't agree with all their high street bust ups and imported trees from Finland)........etc. This council is killing off Suttons schools, business, big council tax bills, importing more and more immigrants into the crowded area, oh well it's us workers who will foot their bills forever I guess. PS I bet Burstow doesn't live in a hovel...what about picturing Chez Burstow? Be fAIR!