LAST FRIDAY the ubiquitous Mrs. Legge and others visited the
town of Hatfield to take part in what was described as a Tory brains trust. The Evening Standard reported that 'people came out in hundreds' for this spectacle 'in, contrast to the last Tory meeting in the town which drew only twenty people. The speaker then was Lord Mancroft.' I was struck less by the Hatfield Tories' choice of performers last week and less by the fact that 'golden-haired Mrs, Legge, lovely in an electric-blue dress and a bouquet of pale pink roses, insisted that Britain was not a dirty nation' than by the relative failure of Lord Mancroft to draw an audience. Having asked him if he knew why only twenty people had come to hear him, I discovered that never in his life has he even visited the town of Hatfield let alone addressed a public meeting there. I wonder what made the Evening Standard think of the number of twenty.
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