A MARKETING consultant has been selected to replace scandal-hit Mark Oaten as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Winchester at the next General Election.
The local party selected Martin Tod, 42, at a meeting in Winchester following Mr Oaten's decision in July to step down at the next election.
Mr Tod's connections to Winchester go back a long way. His great-great-great-grandfather, Dean Thomas Garnier, features in Winchester Museum as an "anti-muckabite" campaigner to bring a sewage system to Winchester in the 1860s.
Mr Tod, a Cambridge University graduate, said: "My first priority is to listen to local people and work with Mark Oaten, Sandra Gidley and the local Lib Dem team to stand up for local people on the City Council, County Council and in Parliament."
Mr Oaten's decision to step down as an MP followed newspaper revelations about his affair with a gay prostitute.
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