The byelection campaign in Somerton and Frome is notable for several reasons, not least the fact that the Liberal Democrat challenger, Sarah Dyke, sometimes feels as if she gets treated like the de facto local MP already.
“I’ve been dealing with a lot of David Warburton’s casework over the last year because people haven’t known where to go,” Dyke says of the Conservative incumbent, who resigned last month after a parliamentary investigation into allegations of harassment and drug use.
