10 OCTOBER 1987, page 5

The Spectator

WON'T PAY, CAN'T VOTE The tax will certainly feel like a tax on voting, since it will be based on the Register of Electors. This connection is inadvertent, but it will prove......

Wrong Man

IT would obviously be wrong for Lord Young to be the next chairman of the Conservative Party so long as he is Secret- ary of State for Trade and Industry. At least, it should be......

Is He Flagrant?

WHEN aspiring male Conservative politi- cians seek selection as constituency candi- dates, the local party bases its choice, it is said, not on the character of the would-be MP,......