Kelvin McKensie will run against Davis with Murdoch's backing?

[matgb]

If Labour doesn't run he'll do it. He just said it on This Week^[1]. Tim was almost right.

ETA Jennie has more. I hate to say this, but Labour would be better off with McKenzie as an independent candidate, Davis's vote is partially partizan lock 'em up Tories (not all Conservatives are Tories, really must write that post), and while Davis will get a big vote, his 'core support' might split off on the single issue to back Kelvin, especially with a media circus.

Interesting times. Is there a train station in town? If Kelvin runs, might need to actually go campaign against the git.

ETA 2: Iain has done the research I planned to do tomorrow, and has a roundup of other principled MP resignations, including a fair few I'd not even heard of. Dick Taverne and Tony Benn I knew of but some of the others are interesting.

[1] Approx 20 minutes in on the iPlayer, after he drones on about Wade's party at Rupert's

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Incidentally there's another odd resignation that Iain missed from his historical lists, which I've added in his comments, mainly due to it being similar to Davis's in many ways.

[matgb]

Interesting, that is one of those weird happenstances, poor git got swamped in the general publicity I guess.