Danny Beales was having dinner with his family on Friday evening when his phone started to vibrate insistently. “I was trying not to be rude, but eventually I couldn’t ignore the calls any more. I picked up, and a voice said: ‘Have you heard the news?’”
The news, which the Labour candidate for Uxbridge and South Ruislip had not yet seen, was the resignation of Boris Johnson as an MP for the constituency, in advance of the findings of an investigation into the Partygate scandal.
