Zac Goldsmith may have wanted the Richmond Park byelection to be a referendum on Heathrow expansion, but local voters had other ideas. Photograph: Sam Lister/PA‘I don’t understand why Labour didn’t go in with the Lib Dems’I’m a Labour member and can’t understand why they didn’t go in with the Lib Dems against Zac Goldsmith. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images‘I voted for Goldsmith at the last election but not this time’I voted for Zack Goldsmith at the last election but not this time, principally because of his support for the Leave campaign. John Gaylor, 46, Richmond‘His stance on Brexit is completely at odds with the borough’Other than the Heathrow expansion, there’s nothing Zac Goldsmith represents that I don’t disagree with. Jason Regan, Richmond‘Labour fielding a candidate showed a lack of strategic understanding’I have voted Labour since 1971; except for prior tactical voting (against Tories), and am a member of the Labour Party.

Source: The Guardian December 02, 2016 12:54 UTC