The A-list is a way of opening up the Tory candidate pool to new non-traditional woman and ethnic minorities on merit. Look at the number of people from the inner city Dave has got on the A-list:
Timothy Coleridge (K&C councillor) Margot James (K&C councillor) Joanna Gardner (K&C councillor) Elizabeth Campbell (K&C councillor) Mary Macleod (Deputy Chairman K&C) Mary Weale (K&C councillor) Melanie Mclean (who lives in K&C) Angie Bray GLA (whose Assembly seat includes K&C)
Kensington and Chelsea is hardly deprived inner London, though some of those Notting Hill multi-million pound mortgages can mean economising on a house in the South of France. Don’t say they don’t know about hardship…