Southwark Liberal Democrats and Southwark Labour have selected their candidates for the Surrey Docks by-election to be held on Thursday 9 June.

The poll has been triggered by the resignation of incumbent Lib Dem councillor Lisa Rajan.

The Liberal Democrat candidate will be Daniel Whitehead (Twitter: @LibDemDan)

Labour has selected Will Holmes (Twitter: @Willtholmes) to contest the election.

The deadline for all candidates to submit their nomination papers is 4pm on Thursday 12 May. A full list of candidates will be published by the returning officer soon afterwards.