Former Cambridge MP Julian Huppert has been reselected as a prospective parliamentary candidate by the Cambridge Liberal Democrats.

Posting on Twitter, Huppert said that he was “Delighted & honoured to be reselected unanimously”, adding that there was “So much to do for our city & our country”.

Dr Huppert, who is a Fellow of Clare College, served as Cambridge's MP between 2010 and 2015. He was defeated in last year’s election, losing by just 599 votes to Labour’s Daniel Zeichner in the country's 18th closest contest. He was one of 49 Liberal Democrat MPs to lose their seat in 2015.

He succeeded fellow Lib Dem, David Howarth as MP for Cambridge in 2010 with a 6,792 vote majority, having unsuccessfully contested the west Cambridgeshire constituency of Huntingdon in 2005.

Outside of politics, Dr Huppert, who is an alumnus of Trinity College, has worked as a research scientist studying DNA structures, first at Trinity and then at Clare College. 

Speaking to Varsity when he announced that he would be seeking the Liberal Democrat candidacy for Cambridge, Huppert said that he'd been persuaded that he couldn't “just sit out” the next election after seeing the “toxicity” created in the wake of the EU referendum.