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Sam Smith, the current Tory leader of Nottinghamshire County Council, recalls it wistfully as the "good old days of Conservativism".

As he files, she wistfully lists names of places that linger in her deep memories but have no meaning: Delaware, Europe, Zimbabwe and the Equator.

“I sold 20 knives a week,” he said wistfully, adding that he’s “not great at working for other people.”

The elderly woman gazes wistfully into the distance, her hands curled over a basket of tobacco, surrounded by the hundreds of cigarettes she has spent hours rolling by hand.

“He didn’t recognize them as a bad influence or something that’s holding him down,” she recalled wistfully.