Advance Together


Advance Together is a British political party. The party is led by Annabel Mullin, a former Liberal Democrat member and parliamentary candidate for Kensington. It was registered with the Electoral Commission on 22 February 2018. Party officials were named as Mullin and Peter Marshall. It formed an alliance with the Renew Party in late 2018, with Mullin joining the leadership team and becoming leader of Renew.

History

The party was founded shortly after the Grenfell Tower fire, with aims for more accountability in the council. The party contested the 2018 local elections in the Borough, winning 2.4% of the vote but failing to win any seats.
In September 2018, the party announced it was forming an alliance with the pro-European and centrist Renew Party, with Annabel Mullin joining their leadership team.
The party fielded five candidates at the 2019 general election.
On 4 December 2019, the political web site Guido Fawkes accused the party of looking "more and more like a Lib Dem front than a legitimate political party." Annabel Mullin is a director of Sweetspot Strategic Communications Ltd. The Guido Fawkes article pointed out that the Sweetspot web site states "our objective is to syphon Tory votes to the Lib Dems". The accusation in the article was that Advance Together effectively allowed the Liberal Democrats to bypass spending limits in the five seats being contested by Advance Together at the 2019 general election.
In December 2019, Advance received a £20,000 donation from Our Future Our Choice.

Election results

In the 2018 local elections the party fielded 14 candidates in 12 wards in Kensington and Chelsea, receiving a total of 2,357 votes, or approximately 2.4% of the total vote.

Elections

[2019 [United Kingdom general election|2019 general election]]