We are wary of providing candidate information on the basis of a single source, but ours is a very good one in this instance. And all candidates were named to ConservativeHome as possibles earlier in the week.
CCHQ and Downing Street have been taken to task elsewhere, sometimes rightly, for simply imposing a list of candidates on seats with no connection to it.
It cannot be said to have done so in this case. Foges apparently has a connection to the island and has spoken to the Association several times; Fox has been a governor of two local schools, and has a home on the Isle of Wight; Seely is a councillor, as above, and the Seelys are a well-known family on the island.
The selection will take place later this week.
P.S: A tip of the hat to On The Wight, which named Fox and Seely as possible replacements for Andrew Turner in January 2015 – before the last election.
P.P.S: The Isle of Wight County Press also has the story, which went up at roughly the same time as ConHome’s tweet went out. We didn’t see its story and have no reason to think that it saw our tweet.