Three-time winner in St Philip North, Michael Lashley, is watching the build-up to this weekend’s annual general conference of the Democratic Labour Party carefully, but he isn’t leaning toward incumbent president Verla De Peiza, or her challenger, Reverend Guy Hewitt.
“I’ve won St Philip North on three occasions. I can’t recall being an officer of the party. I’ve never held office but my view is ‘may the best person win’. I’m basically concentrating on my legal practice,” was all he would say when pressed on the issue while a guest-caller on Starcom Network’s Down To Brasstacks call-in programme yesterday.
But the Queen’s Counsel did tip his hand about his future in politics, indicating that if the branch of St Philip North does call for him once more, he would be there to offer his services.
“I’ve always said politics is a calling,” Lashley, a former Minister of Transport and Works, told the programme.
“I’ve been so far away from politics, but let me say politics is a calling. I’ve never foisted myself on the people of St Philip North. The people have to call me and I believe in that principle. If they call me, of course I would not let them down. I would have to shake off the political cobweb and come out. But at this moment I’m concentrating on the law,” he said.
Lashley said the DLP was still in the national mix.
“The Democratic Labour Party still has a contribution to make,” adding that both De Peiza and Hewitt were competent and had contributions to make to the party. (BA)
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