A FORMER senior Labour councillor is to stand for the Conservatives in this year’s Lancashire County Council elections while his wife remains a major figure in his old party. Gareth Molineux joined the Tories in September and, at the weekend was chosen to fight the Great Harwood, Clayton, Rishton and Altham division in the poll due in May. His wife Jenny is a member of Hyndburn Council’s Labour Cabinet and represents Overton ward in Great Harwood. Mr Molineux, a 39-year-old IT support analyst and father of three, quit Labour in June claiming the local party had ‘a culture of bullying, harassment and victimisation’.