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Theresa May’s woman in Hove causes a stir with the local press

Oh dear. Given the number of complaints from local Conservative groups about the amount of CCHQ control freakery involved in candidate selection for the snap election, one would have thought that those who made the cut would be the crème de la crème of the party.

So, Labour’s Peter Kyle ought to count his lucky stars that his Tory opponent Kristy Adams appears to have slipped through the net. With the Conservatives hoping to take Hove from Labour come June, Adams has given an interview to the local paper — the Argus — in a bid to win voters.

Alas Mr S suspects that it may instead have the opposite effect. With Hove voting heavily to Remain, Adams — who bills herself as Theresa May’s woman — refused to say how she voted in the EU referendum on three occasions:

TA: Which way did you vote on Brexit?

KA: I didn’t campaign for the outs and I didn’t campaign for the ins.

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