Daniel Pitt: Reflections on being a candidate in a Council by-election

Daniel Pitt: Reflections on being a candidate in a Council by-election

Dr Daniel Pitt is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Buckingham. He was the Conservative candidate in the Long Eaton North Council by-election in Derbyshire. Benjamin Disraeli said, in the House of Commons in 1859, ‘finality is not the language of politics’. When I received the phone call sounding me out about whether I would like to become the Conservative Party candidate in the Long Eaton North by-election, Disraeli’s quote was looming la…