David Matthews - True Blue - Strange Tales from a Tory Nation

What they made of me I was never able to work out. Long after I left the Richmond Conservative Party behind, in order to progress around the rest of the Home Counties on my Tory journey with David, they would telephone from time to time asking if I wanted to become a local councillor in Richmond which, they said, they could ‘fix’. That was the first step towards a full-time professional political career. All that suddenly stopped when I politely asked the local organizer, Mr Leach, to stop calling me. (I told him that, although I had been perfectly happy to join in the 2005 election campaign in Richmond, ‘that phase of my life was now over’.)

Leachy seemed hurt and bewildered by my departure and, on a personal rather than a political level, I had some sympathy for him. His social life seemed, to a large extent, to revolve around the local Conservative Association, whose membership included many very, very old people. I think he saw me, despite my greying hair, as vigorous new blood, and perhaps the first swallow of a new spring of enthusiastic support for the Conservative movement, someone who might help to revitalize the thing he loved.

‘Why have you gone off us?’ he asked plaintively. ‘You know you could have a really great future with the Conservative Party … You did such marvellous work for us during the election campaign … We really need energetic young people like you, you know …’

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