Back page gossip from the 13 March issue of Research Fortnight
Writing on the wall
Former tech minister Paul Scully has announced that he will step down from parliament at the next election. He is the latest Conservative MP who seems to have read the writing on the wall. You may enjoy his exit interview with Sky’s Sophy Ridge, in which the former minister explains the standard deviation model, arguing that rather than being under the bell curve in the middle ground of politics, concentrating on the core vote puts the Tories at risk of becoming the “bell ends” of politics. Whatever could he mean?
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