As I've mentioned before, I spent a lot of time in Leigh growing up, and still have friends there. They've found more evidence of that particular bloke speekin his branes:
The current local MP (James Grundy, aka
the Pennington Flasher) was in the year above me at college, and is currently getting a lot of flak from various fellow alumni for being a complete sell-out to the Cult of Boris.
As I said to people at the time: as much as we used to be able to have a reasonable conversation on campus, any Tory MP still in the party must be very clear-eyed about the sort of people and policies they've hitched their wagon to.