Learning from defeat

They say you only really learn from your defeats. Last Friday I found out. Seeing your candidate win on the first round of voting only to lose on transfers is bad enough. When it’s your father, it’s a lot worse. We knew it would be tough. The Humberside Police force area was technically a Tory

If only we had 2,232 Alices

I’m typing this on the train back to London after spending the last two weeks trying to get John elected. He spent the last year trying to get selected as Labour’s candidate and then elected as one of the first Police and Crime Commissioners. I’ll write a bit more about the campaign for Labourlist next