‘We need leadership’: Alistair Carns on giving up a military career to become a Labour MP
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A colonel and former marine hopes to become a Labour MP at the election. Kim Sengupta talks to him about his decision to stand, and to voters in Selly Oak, Birmingham, about his prospects for success