Shaun Bailey, outspoken youth worker and founder of youth charity My Generation, missed out on the Hammersmith and Shepherd's Bush seat by around 3,000 votes to Labour MP Andy Slaughter. In Sutton and Cheam, Phillipa Stroud, director of Conservative think-tank The Centre for Social Justice, lost out to Liberal Democrat Paul Burstow by fewer than 2,000 votes.
Both candidates were contesting seats marked as key targets for the Conservatives. Bailey has often been described as a poster-boy for the Tories' youthful image. The Centre for Social Justice has also been influential in informing much of the Conservative Party's family policies.
The Liberal Democrats also failed to get their youth policy adviser Linda Jack into parliament. Also youth adviser for the Financial Services Authority, Jack faced an uphill battle against Tory MP Nadine Dorries for the Mid Bedfordshire seat.
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