Alas, poor Warwick

摘要

THE CONSTITUENCY of Warwick and Leamington was once known as the Garden of Eden, not because it is beautiful-though it is-but because it was the Conservative stronghold of Anthony Eden, who won the seat nine times over 34 years. The first Labour candidate ever fielded in the constituency was Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick, who campaigned from the back seat of a Rolls-Royce in 1923, says Wyn Grant of Warwick University. Labour took the seat only in 1997, and held it until the end of the Blair-Brown era in 2010.