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Thursday, February 05, 2015

The Returning Officer: Rutland Cayenne pepper and foot-and-mouth colour Rutland's election history.


Election are always interesting times here in Rutland. Tories' past Corby candidate Rutland
County Councillor Christine Emmett thinks her party's leadership does not know what it is doing
I Could not agree more.




The New Statesman

The Returning Officer: Rutland
Cayenne pepper and foot-and-mouth colour Rutland's election history.


In 1883, Gerard Noel resigned as MP for Rutland. This was only the second time there had been a contest in the constituency since the Reform Act 1832. The London Standard noted, “Foot-and-mouth disease is in the district [and] it is attracting quite as much attention as the election.”

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http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/01/returning-officer-rutland