Speculation Mounts Over Holden’s Bid for a Safe Seat

Tory Party Chairman Richard Holden is searching for a seat of his own as boundary changes will abolish his North West Durham base, and rumours about which safe(ish) seat CCHQ will get for him are circulating around SW1. One tit-bit of gossip Guido has come across is certainly eyebrow raising…

The latest rumour is that Holden is going in for the now Tory safer seat – thanks to the very boundary changes that lost him his own – of Skipton and Ripon.[…] Read the rest