Is David Laws running scared in Yeovil?
Update: The answer to my question would seem to be “No.” In the absence of any hard facts, however, I think it was still worth asking. However, as the conservative candidate relates it, I rather agree with Laws’ position on this matter, and have said so below. David Keen reports that his local churches have had to agree a change in their procedure for their pre-election hustings. I’m glad that here in Droitwich we shall still be following the traditional format where candidates all have to address the same question at the same time, and be judged accordingly. Yeovil’s hustings look more like a beauty parade. It’s impossible to avoid wondering why this has happened, and which Yeovil candidates are playing the awkward card or have chickened out of a proper debate. Unfortunately, the churches’ communiqué (David’s rather posh term for a notice!) fails to say, and the voter and reader will be left to make up their own mind. Whoever it is, this is a change from what was previously planned, a
