Cities of London and Westminster

What happened here

1. April 2025

   What was recorded

   The April 2025 scrape recorded 7 candidate websites for Cities of London and Westminster.

   • Edward Lucas — Liberal Democrats — https://www.edwardlucas.com
   • John Generic — Independent — https://directdemocracycandidate.org
   • Mathew Carr — Independent — https://carrzee.org
   • Rachel Blake — Labour and Co-operative Party — https://www.rachelblake.org.uk
   • Tarun Ghulati — Independent, Reform UK — https://www.tarunghulati.com
   • Tim Barnes — Conservative and Unionist Party — https://www.votetimbarnes.org
   • Tim Hallett — Independent — https://medp.uk
2. 7 September 2026

   What the audit found

   On 7 September 2026 those URLs were requested again — 2 no longer resolved, 5 answered. An HTTP success means the server answered. It does not establish that the campaign page survived.

   • John Generic — https://directdemocracycandidate.org — Answered (HTTP 200).
   • Mathew Carr — https://carrzee.org — Answered (HTTP 200).
   • Rachel Blake — https://www.rachelblake.org.uk — Answered (HTTP 200).
   • Tarun Ghulati — https://www.tarunghulati.com — Answered (HTTP 200).
   • Tim Barnes — https://www.votetimbarnes.org — Answered (HTTP 200).
   • Edward Lucas — https://www.edwardlucas.com — No longer resolved (Connection failed). An outage and a removal look the same in this check.
   • Tim Hallett — https://medp.uk — No longer resolved (DNS failure). An outage and a removal look the same in this check.
3. 21 September 2026

   What happened to the words

   A homepage fetch was compared with the April site text for 5 of the 7 candidates here. A sentence missing from that fetch is not matched to a replacement.

   • John Generic — 2 sentences from the April text were not found on the homepage fetch of https://directdemocracycandidate.org. Example from the April text: “STOP switching the driver and change the engine of our Democracy!”
   • Mathew Carr — 1 sentence from the April text was not found on the homepage fetch of https://carrzee.org. Example from the April text: “Climate solutions, sustainability, whistleblowing news and analysis that don’t cost the earth (website under construction).”
   • Rachel Blake — 424 sentences from the April text were not found on the homepage fetch of https://www.rachelblake.org.uk. Example from the April text: “Since the election, the Government has acted with the speed and decisiveness which this situation requires, allocating funding in the Autumn Budget for…”
   • Tarun Ghulati — 297 sentences from the April text were not found on the homepage fetch of https://www.tarunghulati.com. Example from the April text: “This must stop. - I will create dedicated units to tackle crime. - Increased and urgent focus on violence and crime against women. - Ensure visible on the…”
   • Tim Barnes — 236 sentences from the April text were not found on the homepage fetch of https://www.votetimbarnes.org. Example from the April text: “"The top six issues of crime, housing, transport, investment in our public services, air pollution, trying to build a ladder of opportunity for every one of…”
4. Archive sample

   Text overlap, where it was scored

   A separate Wayback comparison scored text overlap for some candidates. It kept the score and an archive URL.

   • Edward Lucas — High text overlap with the compared archived page against the 2 April 2025 archive. 100% of April tokens were still found. Sentence text for this comparison is absent from the snapshot. · Open the archive
   • Tim Hallett — Small text difference from the compared archived page against the 6 February 2025 archive. 44% of April tokens were still found. The capture sits outside the April 2025 scrape window. Sentence text for this comparison is absent from the snapshot. · Open the archive

No replacement sentence is matched. A line that only appears on the later homepage is listed on its own. 2 candidates on this seat have no sentence comparison in the snapshot.