It may be more than a coincidence that one of Kemi Badenoch’s advisers – an Australian strategist called Timothy Smith – worked for Sir David Davis in 2008 when he called a surprise by-election.
The Tory MP triggered a poll in his Haltemprice and Howden constituency in protest over then-prime minister Tony Blair’s plans to introduce 42 days of being able to hold terror suspects in detention without being charged.
