The wealthy village of Bolton Percy is a tiny North Yorkshire idyll with only one bus (the number 27, which comes every two hours) and where the post office is open only once a week, during a four-hour window on a Wednesday. It is a place where residents have neat gardens and fancy cars, and the friendly local church, which will celebrate its 600th birthday next year, is the social hub. In other words, it is exactly the kind of place the Tories could normally rely on for an abundance of support.
After the Selby and Ainsty MP, Nigel Adams – a Boris Johnson ally – resigned over the weekend after being snubbed for a peerage, a byelection was triggered.
