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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's a weakness!&q… (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 the eth… (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)

A January election would give the country exactly what it wants - a General Election, without a General Election Campaign. Sunak dissolves Parliament in the second week of December; it then takes a w… (View Post)