Interview: Daniel Francis MP on Bexleyheath & Crayford and what the seat's voters want from Labour

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Interview: Daniel Francis MP on Bexleyheath & Crayford and what the seat's voters want from Labour

I apologised to Daniel Francis, Labour MP for Bexleyheath & Crayford, when we met. My predictions for July’s general election contained a number of duff calls, but so blithely had I assumed that his seat was nailed-on blue I didn’t give his prospects a second thought. And then, behold, he emerged victorious by 2,114 votes in a part of outer south east London that, on the face of it, was one of the few that looked likely to hold back the red land…