Richard Holden’s campaign is going from bad to worse. It started off on rocky ground when local Tories were furious over the “stitch-up” of the Tory Chairman being parachuted into the rare safe seat last minute – only his name was on the selection list. His team have been fighting hard to secure the seat, managing to send at least 2,500 campaign leaflets to punters in Essex. The only problem is they were sent to the wrong constituency…
It appears there’s been another error from CCHQ, who fumbled the use of Vote Source and sent out thousands of postal leaflets to addresses in Mark Francois’ seat in Rayleigh and Wickford, rather than Basildon & Billericay. Some sources say there could be as many 6,000 Holden leaflets sent to his colleagues’ constituent-hopefuls. To be fair, it’s not the first seat aside from Basildon that Holden’s tried to win…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”
