Adrian Ramsay’s team began to truly believe he would become East Anglia’s first-ever Green MP on election day, when he was greeted with something like rapture during a walkabout in the pretty town of Bungay.
The outpouring of enthusiasm for the Green party in Waveney Valley took some voters back to scenes of sheer excitement surrounding the last Labour landslide of 1997. Twenty-seven years on, a new constituency made up from parts of five ultra-safe Conservative seats, including one that had been Tory since Victorian times, found itself experiencing an unexpectedly infectious sense of Green momentum.
