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Iain Dale who quits his job as a radio presenter to run for parliament has withdrawn from the race.
He on Friday said he quit to become Tory candidate for Tunbridge Wells.
The LBC presenter revealed he had decided to drop out of the contest after the Liberal Democrats dug up a podcast in which he had said he “did not like living in Tunbridge Wells and would quite happily live somewhere else.
He said the disclosure of the podcast from two years ago made it impossible for him to try to realise his ambition of becoming an MP as it would be thrown back at him in every Lib Dem leaflet during any election campaign.
He said, “I instantly recognised the problem with that. There is a context to it but nobody is very interested in context or nuance in that clip and it would be on every LibDem leaflet that was put out in the election campaign,” he told Nick Ferrari on his fellow presenter’s show on Friday.
