THE Green Party’s candidate for a Hampshire seat at next year’s General Election is set to be one of the youngest in the country.

Itchen Sixth Form College student Miles Grindey – who has previously contested two county council elections – will stand in Fareham for the party in May’s poll.

Currently 19, he will be 20 at the time of the election and is set to be one of the youngest candidates in the UK.

Mr Grindey, who grew up in Warsash, recently became chairman of the Warsash Residents’ Association and is a well-known campaigner against the controversial Welborne development 
near Fareham.

He said: “It is time we had someone in Parliament who will fight against destructive developments like Welborne, who will fight to renationalise our trains and get proper links to places of work, hospitals and schools, someone who will fight for the next generation and scrap tuition fees, someone who puts people before profit. 

“All my life I’ve heard people crying for an alternative, and hereI am.”