What’s Dubai got which Skegness hasn’t?
We ask because Reform deputy leader Richard ‘Big Dicky’ Tice is now said to be spending half his time in the sun-lashed Emirati metropolis rather than his Lincolnshire constituency.
Tice is following in the footsteps of his partner, the journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who moved out there several months ago. But if voters are concerned about the absence of their MP, they needn’t be – it’s all for their benefit.
Lessons, he said, could be learned from international experience and from the successes of the United Arab Emirates. “My family built their first ever skyscraper in Dubai in the mid-70s so we have known the place for a long time,” he said. “I first went there in the early 90s. Its growth is amazing.”
So voters can expect Skegness to look like a mini Manhattan by the time of the next election!