11 November 2013
Today’s Daily Telegraph devotes much of its front page to a speech given by Sir John Major to the annual dinner of the South Norfolk Conservative Association. It is unusual for a newspaper to send reporters to cover after-dinner speeches, even when they are made by ex-Prime Ministers. So how come the Telegraph had a journalist on the spot? The paper’s senior political correspondent, Christopher Hope, who wrote the story, is the brother-in-law of South Norfolk Tory MP, Richard Bacon.
