It's like the good old days of Tory Sleaze. Things like this cut through far more than witterings about comparative tax thresholds. (And PtP moved to Gloucestershire ... well I never! Always had… (View Post)

In 1983 Frank Hooley, MP for Sheffield Healey, was deselected by Labour and so ran in Stratford on Avon in order to get his redundancy payment, but he wasn't opposing a sitting MP there. (View Post)

Surely the greatest interview exchange has to be:- Interviewer - "What's your greatest weakness?" Candidate - "Honesty." Interviewer - "Oh, I don't think that'… (View Post)

I seem to recall that Southam Observer now lives in this constituency, and has expressed views on it in the past. He might well have something to add, but I don't know how to raise him across th… (View Post)

The "Exit Interviews" done by Matt Chorley on Times Radio are very interesting - the Monday one, with Charles (?) Timpson, outgoing MP for Eddisbury, was a first class interview for anyone … (View Post)