While Tony Blair was making his valedictory speech to the Labour party conference in Manchester on 27 September, 60-year-old Elizabeth Pascoe was ecstatic. Not because she was impressed by the Prime Minister’s self-composed list of glorious achievements, but because the High Court had just stopped the government from running a bulldozer through her house.
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