Executive Member Resigns

Livia Oldland has changed roles within the Independent Network, from Executive Member to the organisation’s first full-time Researcher. Livia started her new position last week and will be coordinating the Independent Network’s future activities. She aims to raise the national profile of UK independent candidates and help everyday people stand as Independents.

Livia says, ‘The Executive and the Secretariat have done some fantastic work, such as amending the Bell Principles and setting up the process for endorsing Independent prospective candidates. I’ll be continuing their work and will be kept very busy, my immediate tasks are to form partnerships with relevant organisations, creating resources and setting up a new interactive website for independent candidates’. 

Livia is keen to promote Independents, ‘Only 1.5% of the population are members of political parties. I want to persuade floating voters to identify themselves as Independent’.

Livia previously worked for East Herts People, a local campaign organisation that supports Independent candidates in local elections in East Hertfordshire . She has also been an intern for Save the Children and the Liberal Democrats. She graduated with a BA in Theology from Leeds University in 2008.

The Independent Network’s executive are Steven (Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Hexham) and Daisy Ford, Neville Watson and Jim Thornton (East Herts People).