For most byelection candidates, knocking on voters’ doors generally brings a response ranging from the apathetic to the openly hostile. But Alistair Strathern had a different experience canvassing in Mid Bedfordshire after Nadine Dorries finally announced her resignation.
“We were able to break the news to people on their doorsteps, and it was one of the most surreal evenings I’ve had,” said Strathern, the Labour candidate to replace the hard-to-dislodge Conservative MP, who quit 11 weeks after first saying she would.
