Peter McDonald

We are delighted to announce that Peter McDonald has been selected to fight Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket for the Liberal Democrats at the next general election.

Peter is CEO of an agriculture start-up near Bury St Edmunds and has been a District & County Councillor in nearby Duxford, Cambridgeshire for 4 years. He has spent the majority of his working life in agriculture and understands how important it is for the local farming & rural economy of Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket that the industry is properly supported.

In an official statement, Peter said “I am delighted to have been selected to fight Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket at the next general election. This is an area with an important agricultural community that matters to me a lot, and I have been frustrated at the lack of support in recent years for our local agricultural economy, botched trade deals and a failure to recognise family farms are the back-bone of our agricultural community.

Conservatives just take the farming community for granted.

I have experience standing up for people as a local Councillor and have worked a lot with local businesses. Business support in my council area was rated as some of the best in the country during COVID.

In recent by-elections such as North Shropshire, Tiverton & Honiton and Somerton & Frome the farming community have turned away from Conservatives to elect Liberal Democrat MPs who are on their rural wavelength.

I look forward to speaking to local residents and campaigning as a different kind of voice for our area after many years of Conservative decline."