You can often tell a lot about people, not by what they say but how they say it. Three weeks ago, I appealed to you to help me make up my mind, as a lifelong Tory, as to how to vote in Boston and Skegness, the constituency in which I live. Many of you kindly responded. Nearly all had a tone of slight despair, much mistrust and a smattering of anger.

As far as my experience goes, Reform is the Church of Nigel

The two main protagonists in my piece also contacted me. First was Matt Warman, the local Conservative candidate who is defending a 25,000 majority. Warman, as I wrote in my piece, seemed to be one of those blancmange types who could have been moulded in the Labour party or the slightly more liberal end of the Lib Dems. His message opened with: ‘Hello – trust all well. Blancmange here.’ I thought this a humorous and very British response. He went on to suggest we have a chat as I might find ‘a small-state, low tax Tory who thinks the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is fundamentally broken.’ So far, so reassuring.

When I spoke to Warman, the One Nation ‘blancmange’ I had bemoaned on these pages was crystal clear on the Tories failings, right back to Cameron, and the need for bold leadership:........

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