Brian Paddick's Election Diary

This is my favourite bit:

7th November 2007 Lunch with the Evening Standard. Am asked how I will appeal to Conservative voters. I say I'm a former police officer, Oxford educated, business degree, scrub up well, can put sentences together in an intelligent way. 'Yes,' says one of the journalists. 'But how are you going to appeal to Conservative voters?'"

It's the way he tells them.