Mr Knight and Mr Nice

摘要

Dorset, the prettiest bit of England, is also one of the election's most closely fought battlegrounds. Its four constituencies are all marginal. The Tories are defending two seats from a strong Liberal Democrat challenge. They lost the other two in 2001, one to the Lib Dems and one to Labour, and are struggling to regain them. South Dorset, where Jim Knight won by 153 votes, has the distinction of being the tightest Labour marginal in England, while Oliver Letwin, the shadow chancellor, who holds West Dorset, is one of the big Tory names the Liberal Democrats have targeted with their "decapitation strategy".