Bad boy Brady dodges Newark campaign duty

It’s safe to say that the Tories are very pleased with their ground effort in last week’s Newark by-election, with praise heaped on those that put the hard slog in:

From: Government Chief Whip

Subject: Newark UPDATE

Dear Colleague,

Many thanks to the 86 colleagues who have made at least three trips to Newark (and in several cases, many more):

Adams; Afriyie; Arbuthnot; Baldwin; Barclay; Blackwood; Blunt; Boles; Bradley; Burns C; Byles; Cairns; Cameron; Carmichael; Clappison; Clarke K; Colville; de Bois; Duddridge; IDS; Duncan; Ellis; Ellwood; Elphicke; Evennett; Fabricant; Francois; Freer; Garnier E; Goodwill; Gove; Grayling; Green; Greening; Grieve; Gyimah; Hague; Halfon; Hammond P; Hands; Harper; Hayes; Heald; Hollingbery; Hopkins; Hunt; Jackson; James; Javid; Jones A; Jones D; Jones M; Knight; Lansley; Letwin; Lewis B; Maude; McCartney K; McLoughlin; Milton; Morgan; Murrison; Newton; Norman; Opperman; Osborne; Paterson; Penrose; Phillips; Pickles; Rudd; Shelbrooke; Simmonds; Skidmore; Smith C; Smith J; Soubry; Spencer; Swayne; Truss; Uppal; Vaizey; Vara; Villiers; Willetts; Young.