ELECTION 2001: `We've never seen you in St Helen's before, squire'

From: The Independent - London | Date: May 13, 2001| Author: SHOLTON BYRNES | Copyright information

IT IS A long way from Sarsden House, Shaun Woodward's 18th- century Oxfordshire home, to the barbed-wire covered West Sutton Labour Club in St Helen's, Lancashire. But it is here, among the velour splendours of the Labour club's ballroom, that the former Tory MP's fate will be decided this morning.

On the same stage that will welcome Chas 'n' Dave, the Cockney duo known for such gems as "Rabbit Rabbit", on Thursday, Mr Woodward must convince the 200 or so members of the St Helen's Sou...

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