The Times today reports how a third of Conservative Party candidates so far selected are women, as part of a strategy which heavily borrows from Liberal Democrat campaign techniques:

Seven of the 19 hopefuls selected to fight the most winnable seats for the Tories are women and most of them just missed out on Westminster in the 2005 election, The Times has learnt. They were selected at such an early stage in the electoral cycle — another election is not expected until 2009 — after an analysis of new MPs who won with the biggest swings at the 2005 poll.

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