Sam Gyimah, the former Conservative minister who defected to the Liberal Democrats at their party conference last month, has announced that he will be fighting the next general election, not in his East Surrey constituency, but in the key marginal of Kensington.
What are his chances? For many reasons, not least that the Liberal Democrats are unlikely to stand one of their new big-hitters in a seat where he is only going to lose, they look rather good.
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