Adam Macqueen

They're still Conservatives, aren't they?

But that is quite a risk, isn't it?

Because in the last set of local elections, I remember there were several people who were put up effectively as paper candidates for reform, did get in and then regressed it and dropped out immediately afterwards.

I just think, I mean, with the vetting thing, I was thinking this with all the Mandelson stuff in the last week.

Just develop vetting.

Should we just throw open the private eye archive to these people?

That's what you really need, isn't it?

Free sub, yeah.

Well, actually, in the case of Lord Mandelson, of course, what you need is someone to just go, no, it's Peter Mandelson, which would have solved an awful lot of problems.

Yeah.

Anyway.

That Peter Mandelson.

And increasingly it's presumably getting more difficult because political views are splintering more, people are going more to extremes.

Potentially we're going to end up with

hung councils that are half reform and half green, aren't we?

Yes.

Which is quite hard to see.

The Conservatives and the Lib Dems always worked very, very well together at a level in local government, which I think is why the Lib Dems in 2010 thought, oh, we could do this in national government, it'll go really, really well.

Didn't work out for them, spoiler alert.

But it's going to be very, very difficult when people are that politically opposed.