A couple of weeks ago we noted how Shaun Bailey, the Conservative candidate for the newly drawn Hammersmith constituency, was stopped from having a public debate filmed by one of his campaign team by his Labour and Lib Dem opponents.
His Labour opponent is none other than Andrew Slaughter, who currently sits as MP for Ealing Acton and Shepherds Bush. Slaughter failed in his first bid to win election to the Commons at the Uxbridge by-election in 1997, at which point he was leader of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, a post he held until 2005 - a year before the Conservatives gained control of the Borough.
And it is his record as leader of the council that the Conservative campaign in Hammersmith is targeting in a new online attack ad, in the same way that the national party campaign attacked Gordon Brown last weekend:
Jonathan Isaby
