Whilst we're remembering connections, a reminder that new Conservative Party chairman Greg Hands was with BBC DG Tim Davie in the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservatives in the early 90s. Both were just down from Cambridge (but I've no evidence that they met there). Tim fought a futile by-election in the College Park and Old Oak Ward in 1993 - spookily, the ward included the BBC site at White City, but not Television Centre - and failed again, this time in the Normand Ward, in the council-wide elections of 1994.
Greg joined the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservatives in 1991, got elected for Town Ward in 1998, and was council leader from 1999 to 2003.
Both are fondly remembered by Stephen Greenhalgh, elevated to the Lords by Boris Johnson in 2020.
Brilliant track record @GregHands. I thought you were my vice chair of Sherbrooke Ward in 1992. We had Tim Davie on the team + your late brother Andy. It hardly matters! https://t.co/jdqM2GAwHl
— Stephen Greenhalgh (@team_greenhalgh) February 7, 2023
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