Andrea Leadsom march was a ‘bit of a cock-up’, says campaign chief

It’s less than a month since Andrea Leadsom bowed out of the Conservative leadership contest, leading to Theresa May’s appointment as Prime Minister. Now Leadsom’s campaign manager Tim Loughton had given an interview to the Times in which he conducts a post-mortem on the failed bid.

While the Conservative MP for East Worthing and Shoreham is adamant that the negative headlines regarding Leadsom’s CV and motherhood comments were simply down to the ‘get Andrea campaign’, he does concede there were some things he could have done better.

Take for example, Leadsom’s march of the zombies. The stunt saw a handful of supporters including Loughton take to Westminster in their suits and pearls chanting ‘what do we want? Leadsom for leader!’. Loughton now admits that it became a ‘bit of a cock up’. The problem? Loughton had hoped Leadsom would take part in the march. Instead she hopped into a Mercedes. So much for not being the candidate