Around this time last year, Oliver Dowden took me and a bunch of other journalists on a rollercoaster.
He was party chairman at the time, and was running the Tories’ disastrous (and never to be repeated) ‘Spring Conference’ in Blackpool. Alas, the purpose of the jaunt was not at all clear to me.
A couple of months later, Dowden resigned as chairman, after having overseen two by-election drubbings that a glaucomic mole could have seen coming a mile off.
