Julie Moody, recently selected for Middlesborough South and East Cleveland, has started her new blog by describing her feelings on being selected:
"Getting selected last Saturday was a very humbling experience and it also made for a quiet drive home. My 2 daughters in the back seat have got so used to a tired grumpy mummy going home fed up with losing that they didn't quite know what to say when I'd won... I was so stunned that I was lost for words too - which is rare for anyone who knows me. In the end all I could say to them apart from the excitement of finding a constituency who wanted me and me also wanting them-a bonus in the mad world of politics-was that I felt that when they got older we would look back on that day and say life was never quite the same again..."
Deputy Editor
