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Iain Dale fails to win selection in Bracknell

Iain Dale From The Observer

Published 17 October 2009

The leading political blogger on trying – and failing – to become a Tory candidateAll my friends and family think I have lost my marbles. "Why on earth would anyone want to be an MP?" they chorus. They don't understand that for some of us politics is like a virus. From time to time, we try to cure ourselves but it never quite goes away.The expenses scandal made me more determined than ever to have…