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Shared opinion | 4 October 2008

Was I wrong to turn down my chance to star on Tory TV?

issue 04 October 2008

‘Would you be interested,’ said the startlingly eager girl at the Birmingham conference centre, ‘in recording a message in the Conservative Video Box?’

God, I was pleased about that. There I was, neither a blond female, nor a read- ily identifiable member of an ethnic minority, and still the flunky reckoned I was the kind of person they wanted on film.

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