This Speakership race looks like boiling down to a battle between two very left-wing Conservatives.
A friend, Tom Fairbrother, has just e-mailed me to say that in 1995, when Sir George Young was first appointed to John Major's Cabinet, the Times leader described him as being as just about as left-wing as you can be without being in the Labour Party.
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a left wing conservative? Is there such a beast?
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