I built up Labour support in Broxtowe from to -9891 to -389 from 1992 to 2010 (winning in 1997, 2001 and 2005), with similar national results in 1992 and 2010; this was mainly due to constituency wor… (View Post)

Canvassing a former Tory area in Didcot and Wantage yesterday with a big team, we found numerous people saying with every appearance of honesty that they were undecided. That duplicates findings the … (View Post)

In 1992 Broxtowe had a Tory majority of 9,800. In 2010, with a similar national result, the Tory majority was 389. There wasn't any significant boundary change that I can remember, though the LibDems… (View Post)

Thanks, yes - had a stroke 8 weeks ago. Pretty much back to normal now except for a need to sleep for an hour most afternoons, and occasional struggles with memory. (View Post)

I was a systems analyst, and wildly out of date after 13 years in Parliament. But I got jobs at at the BUAV and later Cruetly Free Internatinal as a specialist in influencing MPs. It's a niche profes… (View Post)