Welcome to Fareham and Waterlooville, a new parliamentary constituency in Hampshire.

The Fareham and Waterlooville constituency comprises parts of the present-day Fareham and Meon Valley constituencies and will be contested for the first time at the next general election (due by 28 January 2025).

To date, the only declared candidate is the Conservative and Unionist Party's Suella Braverman, who currently holds the Fareham seat and is best known for her "dream" of sending immigrants to Rwanda and whose rhetoric is described by Baroness Warsi (former co-Chair of the Conservative Party) as "racist".

Braverman, ironically, is herself an economic migrant having been parachuted into the constituency to fulfil the relatively simple task, for a Tory, of winning a safe Tory seat. How safe a seat? So safe she doesn't live in the constituency. Instead, she lives a two-hour drive away at her £1.2m home in Bushey, Hertfordshire. Braverman, in effect, is both economic migrant and absentee landlord.

More to follow.