Heath was likely gay but closeted (rumour was he went cottaging as a young MP but whips warned him to shut off his sexuality). Street is probably too moderate to be Tory leader for a term or 2. He is… (View Post)

Khan wins with a majority of 276,707 returning officer declares over Hall (View Post)

He fell out with the blue rinse brigade who ran the local Conservative Association at the time over his love life, his then wife was a regular at Ladies' Tory lunches and so didn't stand ag… (View Post)

The problem for the Tories in towns in Essex and Kent though is also that voters are moving out of Labour London to them (View Post)

Susan Hall gets 32.6% of the vote on current votes in. So that beats the 27% Steve Norris got in 2000 on first preferences and the 29% he got in 2004. So she avoids the worst performance by a Conserv… (View Post)