An experienced politician is bidding for a return to the House of Keys.
Leonard Singer will contest the two-seat constituency of Ramsey in the general election on September 29.
Mr Singer served the town as an MHK from 1996 to 2003, when he was elected to the Legislative Council.
He stayed in the upper house for three years, before failing to win back his seat in the Keys in the 2006 general election, but then topped the poll in the 2008 local authority elections in Ramsey's south ward.
Mr Singer is chairman of the Ramsey Cottage Hospital League of Friends and has 20 years experience in politics in the Isle of Man, having previously served for 13 years on Stockport Metropolitan Council.
He says he has vast experience working in several departments of the Manx government, successfully promoting the Isle of Man's economic development.
However, he says he has never been a 'yes' man and, while supporting 'the good things that government proposes' he is always prepared to scrutinise and question what he calls 'the weaknesses and poor leadership decisions, of which there have been several in the last few years'.
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