Brendan Clarke-Smith: The domino theory of defections

Brendan Clarke-Smith: The domino theory of defections

Brendan Clarke-Smith was Member of Parliament for Bassetlaw between 2019 and 2024 and served as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party Over the Christmas holidays, I was watching my youngest carefully line up a set of dominoes on the floor. He had no intention of knocking them over. He admired the order, the symmetry, the fact that everything stood just so. After some persistent encouragement from his older brother, however, he flicked the fi…