Mary Killen Mary Killen

Dear Mary… | 20 May 2006

Etiquette advice from The Spectator's Miss Manners

issue 20 May 2006

Q. We have lived in a very nice, civilised square in south London for nearly 20 years. It’s surprisingly private and everyone gets on well. One of our neighbours is an eminent Liberal Democrat peer of the realm. Unfortunately his wife and he persist in aggressively canvassing and leafleting our neighbours and us, even though they know that I have belonged to the Conservative party since before the Liberal Democrats were even formed.

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