Haltemprice and Howden byelection: meet the candidates
June 27 2008: David Davis launches his Haltemprice and Howden byelection campaign with a speech in Willerby, east Yorkshire. He resigned and triggered today's byelection in order to draw attention to the government's policies on civil liberties, especially 42-day detention without chargePhotograph: Anna Gowthorpe/PADavid Cameron, the Conservative leader, campaigns with Davis, who resigned as shadow home secretary in order to fight the byelectionPhotograph: Christopher Thomond/FreelanceThe Rev George Hargreaves, the Christian party candidatePhotograph: Rex Features
Gemma Garrett, the reigning Miss Great Britain and candidate for the Miss Great Britain party, launches her byelection campaign in WillerbyPhotograph: Anna Gowthorpe/PAFreedom 4 Choice party candidate Hamish Howitt (left), landlord of the Happy Scots Bar in Blackpool. Howitt was the first publican in England to be convicted for breaching the smoking banPhotograph: Peter Byrne/Peter ByrneMonster Raving Loony party candidate Rosalyn Warner - better known as Mad Cow-Girl Photograph: PRCandidate David Icke, the author and former footballer, launches his campaign in WillerbyPhotograph: Anna Gowthorpe/PABob Geldof speaking alongside David Davis in the Guildhall, Hull, where he endorsed Davis's protest against the government's supposed erosion of civil libertiesPhotograph: Anna Gowthorpe/PADavis campaigns in his Haltemprice and Howden constituencyPhotograph: Christopher Thomond/Freelance
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