19 September 2017
The MP Behind "Tory Glastonbury" Has Big Ambitions To Revive The Conservatives And Beat Jeremy Corbyn

By Alex Spence

It’s a Monday morning in mid-August, and George Freeman is driving through Cambridge in his grey Volkswagen Passat estate. His BlackBerry buzzes constantly. Parliament is in recess for the summer, but while many of his Conservative colleagues have been lying low after the shock of the general election, Freeman has been putting in motion a plan to revive his party and capture the centre ground of British politics.

Freeman, 50, is the MP for Mid Norfolk, Theresa May’s point man for domestic policy on the Tory back benches, and one of the centrists fighting to save his party from the die-hard Brexiteers on the right. He’s just dropped his teenage daughter and son at his ex-wife’s house after a holiday in France. Pinkish from the French sun, casually dressed, he’s sporting a ginger and grey beard and wears a colourful wristband on his right hand from Latitude, the Suffolk music festival, as inspiration for his own event.

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