Spectres of Nadine Dorries and Chris Pincher haunt Conservatives in Mid Beds and Tamworth, as Labour claims momentum going its way
The Labour candidate for Mid Beds, Alistair Strathern, accompanied by Labour MPs Peter Kyle and Ellie Reeves, meeting local party activists last month.The Labour candidate for Mid Beds, Alistair Strathern, accompanied by Labour MPs Peter Kyle and Ellie Reeves, meeting local party activists last month.listair Strathern hates the photo chosen to be splashed across his advertising boards.
Halloween may still be a couple of weeks away but it is evident from visits to both constituencies that the Conservative candidates have been horribly haunted on their respective campaign trails by ghouls from the past. It was only last month, that Pincher, a former whip, finally quit as MP after losing his appeal against an eight-week suspension from parliament for allegedly groping two men at a private members’ club last summer.
“I just don’t recognise that,” says Holland-Lindsay, 39, who has been knocking doors since Dorries said she would resign in June. She adds that she does not believe “that Westminster stuff” will impact on the final poll. “So, the Nadine Dorries experience is huge,” she says. “I mean, I’ve had so many lifelong Conservatives who have just said: ‘I’ve had enough I cannot do it any more.’ And that is a mixture of, you know, people saying to me: ‘I write to my MP. I didn’t get a reply.
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