FEATURES: Lock up your claret, the reds are coming! The dreaded elevation of Tony Blair to PM, and the `dark forces' that will be unleashed as a result, has put hard-core Tories on a social war-footing, finds Nicholas Coleridge . . .

The Sunday Telegraph London | April 27, 1997| | Copyright

"IM NOT trembling in my bed about the Socialists winning," the wife of a Leicestershire landowner told me. "Not like we were last time, with that unspeakable ginger pipsqueak, Mr Kinnock. I just have that sinking feeling in my stomach, like when you've got some rather ghastly couple coming to dinner, and you know it won't be much fun and they won't really fit in."

All over Britain this weekend, traditional Tory voters are wondering whether this really is the last Sunday before the red army sweeps across the county borders, confiscating private property, sequestering hunters from their ...

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