Me and my shadow


Caroline was recently shadowed by student Rachel Hamburger, who wanted to find out more about local government, being a councillor, and the work of Executive Members.

Liberal Democrats currently have 4,500 councillors nationally and run or lead over 80 councils.

“As our strength increases we spend over £12billion nationally each year and we need to attract a wider range of people to stand as councillors, and that includes young people” said Cllr Caroline Pidgeon.

That is why Caroline has been setting up a shadowing scheme, initially in London, for youth and student members of the party, who might be interested in standing to be a councillor. This was launched at the March Harrogate Conference, where many councillors agreed to become shadows for our youth and student members.