NADINE DORRIES: From my nursing days in the 1970s to the Pony Club mums gulled by Blair, how we always learn the hard way that you can’t trust Labour

On the eve of the 1997 general election, I was talking to a group of Pony Club mums in the village where I lived. All of them ‘followed the hunt’, even if they didn’t hunt themselves, and were proud supporters of country pursuits. I asked them how they planned to vote the next day — … Read more