SELFIE QUEEN KAREN WANTS TO BE MP!
SELFIE queen Karen Danczuk said she wants to be a “voice of the people” as she launched a bid to stand for Parliament.
The TV celebrity, who first shot to fame by posting a series of revealing selfies on Twitter, has applied to be selected to stand for the Labour Party in the marginal Bury North constituency.
The 33-year-old said: “Politics is changing, you only have to look across Europe and the rest of the world.
“Parliament needs more common sense and someone who can connect with voters.
“I really believe I’m a voice of the people.”
Mrs Danczuk has served as a Labour councillor for four years in her home town Rochdale and was dubbed Britain’s Sexiest Politician by a Sunday newspaper.
She is currently estranged from her husband and father of her two sons, Simon Danczuk, the sitting MP in Rochdale.
He is currently suspended by the party over a sex-text scandal with a young constituent.
Mrs Danczuk will find out next week if she has been selected by Labour to contest Bury North.
Suspended
Tory MP David Nuttall is defending a wafer-thin majority of just 378 in the constituency.
The snap June 8 election has meant usual party selection procedures – a panel interview and a vote by local members – have been suspended.
Instead, candidates in seats where there is no Labour MP will be selected by a panel of the party’s ruling National Executive Committee.
Mrs Danczuk has campaigned on child abuse issues after waiving her right to anonymity and revealing she was raped by her own brother as a child.
She gave evidence in court against Michael Burke, who was jailed for 15 years for abusing her and two other women.