Health service champion running to be MP for Witney aims to bring fears about privatisation home to the prime minister
Clive Peedell is missing a tooth. One of the front ones. As a doctor, he wouldn’t normally let something like that slide, but he’s been busy: he’s running to be MP for Witney, David Cameron’s constituency, and it’s hard enough to fit it around the day job without wasting time at the dentist’s. With the leafleting and the media appearances and the trek up and down to the Cotswolds from his home in Middlesbrough – to say nothing of his family – there hasn’t been time.
By and large, the gap is manageable. But it becomes a bit of a problem when a photographer asks him to smile for a picture outside a cafe in Witney. He keeps his bottom teeth hidden in a careful grimace. “Cheer up, mate,” he mutters to himself. “You’ll get some votes.”
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