In the safest Tory seat in the country, who do angry, alarmed voters want to be PM?

The Dorset town of Christchurch had a Tory majority of 25,000 in 2017. Now, party loyalists are despairing for the future

At the 2017 general election, voters in the Dorset coastal town of Christchurch delivered the largest Conservative majority in the country. Last Friday, with its ranks of moored leisure boats and mobility scooters sparkling in the midday sun, it looked like just the kind of somnolent retirement town you might expect from that result.

But there was nothing sleepy about the mood there following Theresa May’s resignation announcement. Beneath the deceptively calm surface of the bank-filled high street, tempers were boiling.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2Wn9HxB