Louise Bagshawe, 38, who is the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Corby and East Northants when she’s not knocking out chick lit bestsellers – she proudly tells friends how, when she applied to join David Cameron’s A-list of minor celebrities, she told Central Office: “Look, I’ve sold 2 million books to British women, I know how to speak to them” – is actually a bit of a flip-flopper when it comes to party politics. She joined the Tories in her teens before what she describes as the incompetence and moralising of John Major pushed her towards New Labour. She told The Observer: “I really hated Back to Basics. I can’t stand politicians preaching about personal morality and I thought, ‘Tony Blair is a Tory, I’m joining the Labour Party.’
