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Eric Lubbock: From Orpington Man to Buddhist Monk?
For a few astonishing days in March 1962, the Liberal Party led the Conservative and Labour parties in the opinion polls, the only time it had ever done so since polls were invented. Just a few months later Prime Minister Harold Macmillan sacked half his cabinet in his ‘night of the long knives’, prompting Jeremy Thorpe’s most famous comment – ‘greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life’.
Will the Conservatives deal with racism in the Orpington PPC selection?
Leaked emails published by Duncan Borrowman reveal a dismal state of affairs in the Orpington Conservative party, with Councillor Peter Hobbins writing comments such as, “Why are the Candidates Department so keen on these foreign names?!!!” and criticising members of the Conservative Party’s list of approved candidates for not having “a ‘normal’ English name”.
Duncan’s post [...]
