UDP Party Leader Dean Barrow is coming up on retirement from electoral politics, but - all indications are - he's not going "gentle into that good night." Reports suggest he's actively involved in picking his successor, and those reports say he wanted it to be Attorney General Michael Peyreffite - who lost in the Port Loyola Convention three weeks ago. And while the PM has consistently denied publicly that he had any favorites - today he conceded that - if he lived in Port, he would have voted for "Peyre":...
Reporter
"Whatever happened in Port? I'm going to put it this way, your horse lost."
Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"I had a horse? You must be confusing me with my long departed grandfather Morris Lindo. I know him to be a horse owner. No, I did not have a horse in the race. My sister as you know is great friends with Like Peyrefitte. In fact I am great friends with Michael Peyrefitte, but my sister in particular felt an absolute need to actively support her friend. I wouldn't lie to you. If I had been a voter in Port Loyola, I would have voted for Michael Peyrefitte. But I did not have a horse in the race."
Reporter
"Are you disappointed that he will not be in the race?"
Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"I am disappointed that Michael did not win the Port Loyola convention, because I thought he would have made an excellent representative in the house. I think he is a fine senator and has acquitted himself so very well that elevation or promotion to the house would have been appropriate, but please, let me be absolutely clear, Philip Willoughby as a grass roots candidate, as somebody who is absolutely plug-in to the sort of constituency that Port Loyola is, will make a fine candidate. So I have no political regrets about the outcome at all. Except as I said that I feel for my friend Mike. No difficulties with the result and I would actually be willing to wager at Philip Willoughby will win that constituency."
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