Election results cheer up Patrick
One man for whom the maverick result in Bedford will have provided a boost is Bedford and Kempston MP, Patrick Hall. If Labour held its position, might he yet pull off a stunning victory come the General Election, especially as he is handbag carrier to Caroline Flint?
She is the good-looking ex-Minister who resigned the day after polling day in the local election, accusing Gordon Brown as using her for window dressing.
Hall is prone to fits of the glums. In the last General Election he seemed beaten from the start and it was only in the last few days he pulled out the stops against Richard Fuller, one of the Tories given financial backing by Lord Ashcroft.
He won that time. He must be thinking maybe he can pull it off again.