“If he has lost this seat, there will be much commiseration for him among Tories who know that he had a difficult business fighting their campaign, as well as holding on to this marginal.”
Those words from David Dimbleby, spoken while TV cameras zoomed in on Chris Patten’s downcast face as the Conservative party chair moments before it was announced he had been ousted as the MP for Bath in 1992, will be ringing in the ears of potential replacements for Nadhim Zahawi.
