A London Underground engineer is to stand for the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition in Edmonton at the General Election.

RMT union member Lewis Peacock will stand as long-serving Labour MP Andy Love prepares to step down in May.

He will be competing with newly selected Labour candidate Kate Osamor, Conservative Gonul Daniels, David Schmitz of the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party’s Douglas Coker and UKIP candidate Neville Watson.