George Grant - image, George Grant.
Shortly after Colonel Qaddafi fell, George Grant got a job as deputy editor of the Libya Herald. He worked there as the security situation worsened, until he was nearly kidnapped by a group of jihadis. Returning to the UK, Grant found work on the conservative end of the think tank and policy world. Once here, he launched himself into British politics, standing as the Tory candidate against George Galloway in 2015. Now he’s back on the ballot in Bradford West, “one of the most colourful constituencies in the country”, as he calls it.
The situation in Libya inserted itself into this election in the most brutal way possible when 23 people died in a bomb in the Manchester arena. The bomber, Salman Ramadan Abedi, was a Libyan Mancunian, who is said to have returned from the country only shortly before the attack, leading to a number of allegations about the Conservative government’s intervention there and subsequent strategy.
