Layla Moran

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Layla Moran is the Liberal Democrat candidate for the Battersea constituency in the United Kingdom 2010 general election. At 27, she is one of the youngest major party candidates standing in a London constituency. She is one of a number of ethnic minority Parliamentary candidates running for the first time in the 2010 election.
Biography
Layla Moran is a maths and physics teacher and lives near Clapham Junction. She has a British father and a Palestinian mother. However, after Conservative leader David Cameron made public overtures to the Liberal Democrats, speaking of their shared ground, and the possibility of a center-right alliance, she stated "I am left in a state of mild shock at what he just tried to do: make the public believe that there aren’t many differences between the Lib Dems and the Tories and scaremongering our supporters into voting for them"..
Moran's election campaign has given expression to her dissatisfaction with the political status-quo in the country. Her official campaign website criticizes both the Conservative and Labour Party record in Government, saying "this is our chance to build a fairer Britain from the ashes of a government that took us into Iraq, into a recession and into the worst Westminster scandal since the Tory sleeze of the 1990s."
She told the BBC that "I'm just as sick as everyone else is of how politics has been working in this country in recent years. We need to change the way the system runs and give a voice to those people who haven't necessarily been represented."<ref name=BBCNewLook/>

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