Heidi Allen’s confusing political odyssey

As I pound the streets of South Cambridgeshire where I am the Conservative candidate, the most common reaction I get from voters is “How did that happen?”. (That, at least, is an edited version to keep things family-friendly for Spectator readers). It is usually accompanied by a liberal dosage of decidedly unparliamentary language and the sort of words that if I repeated would lead to me being accused of inflaming passions in politics. But the passions among the public are already inflamed and the issue is this: voters in South Cambridgeshire overwhelmingly elected a Conservative MP in the 2017 general election, giving her more than 52 per cent of the vote, but they are now represented in parliament by a Liberal Democrat. The voters overwhelmingly want to support the government.