Three candidates blazing the trail! - Gallery 5

Bim Afolami, Conservative PPC for Lewisham and Deptford

Bim is a corporate lawyer who advises both big and small businesses. As well as his legal career, he also serves as a governor to a local primary school and is involved with a number of charities.

Having attended Oxford University, Bim is passionate about education and wants to provide better schools, as well as prioritise affordable housing, additional trains to central London and better quality local jobs.

Dianne Abbott, standing for Hackney and Stoke Newington

Dianne was the first black woman to be elected to the House of Commons, and has represented her constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington for over 25 years.

As distinguished parliamentarian, she has worked tirelessly to promote human rights, and in 2008 was awarded he Spectator/Threadneedle Speech of the Year Award and a Human Rights Award from Liberty.

Most recently Dianne has set up a special parliamentary Committee investigating gun crime. She is also a well respected broadcaster.

Zuffar Haq, Liberal Democrat candidate for Harborough

Zuffar is an ardent health campaigner, heavily involved in local hospital car parking issues, better access to GPs, and was part of the campaign that fought to keep children’s heart surgery at nearby Glenfield Hospital.

His family’s links with Leicestershire go back almost 100 years. His grandfather came to Leicester in 1919, and in 1938 his father joined him and was an Air Raid Warden in Clarendon Park during the Second World War and worked in a munitions factory.

Picture: Bim Afolami, Dianne Abbott, and Zuffar Haq (from left to right)