What do to the local party chairs think?

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What do to the local party chairs think?

By Alex Foster | Mon 17th September 2007 - 9:53 pm

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Ming Campbell very kindly invited me and all the other local party chairs to a reception this evening, plied us with booze and nibbles, and gave us an opportunity to mingle and share best practice. Whilst many of us were at conference anyway, some chairs chose to come down specially for the reception.

The news of the WATO phonecalls was one of the hot topics. BBC Radio 4’s World At One had researchers phoning around many local party people like chairs to ask what they thought of the leader. They got Stephen Tall by email in August, and the survey continued.

I took along my trusty voice recorder – not as exciting as Stephen and Richard’s video camera – and asked a few of my contemporaries what they thought. You can hear what they said here.

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