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Tories Target Hull Council Seats Amid Canada Trade Talks

5/3/2026

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Conservatives Dual Push

Conservative Party leaders are simultaneously ramping up activity for a UK council race and a North American trade talks delegation.
Hull Conservative chairman Frankie Williams announced the Tories will contest the 7 May Hull City Council election to regain seats lost in 2022.
Hull City Council has 57 seats, third up for election and Liberal Democrats holding majority.
MP Jamil Jivani met Jamieson Greer and Mark Wiseman, with PM Mark Carney stating Canada alone negotiates CUSMA.

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Yemini Launches Party

Right-wing YouTuber Avi Yemini launched a “Free Palestine” party to divert progressive votes in Victoria’s upper-house race.
Conservative activists are registering misleading party names in Victoria ahead of the 28 November state election.
Greens’ Ellen Sandell said group-voting rules let parties win seats and urged Labor to abolish them.
Anti-lockdown activist Monica Smit filed paperwork for a “Save the Environment” party, exploiting the same loophole.

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Historical Context

On 7 September 2013 the Australian Electoral Commission oversaw a Senate election where 40 seats were contested, and numerous minor parties entered parliament through Glenn Druery’s preference-whispering network. The resulting scandal prompted Nick Xenophon and others to push optional preferential voting, a reform echoed in today’s Hull Council and Avi Yemini political tactics recently.

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Conservatives Dual Push

Conservative Party leaders are simultaneously ramping up activity for a UK council race and a North American trade talks delegation.
Hull Conservative chairman Frankie Williams announced the Tories will contest the 7 May Hull City Council election to regain seats lost in 2022.
Hull City Council has 57 seats, third up for election and Liberal Democrats holding majority.
MP Jamil Jivani met Jamieson Greer and Mark Wiseman, with PM Mark Carney stating Canada alone negotiates CUSMA.

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