Undue

The only hustings that the Prime Minister has attended in the Witney constituency that he is defending were held at the principal and titular town's civic church, St Mary's.

The National Health Action Party's candidate, Dr Clive Peedell of The Lanchester Review, was not invited, at David Cameron's insistence.

The church had given a Conservative-supporting local photographer exclusive rights, to the extent that a rival from a local newspaper was asked to leave.

That deal would have been worthless without the star attraction. So he was granted casting approval. Over an event held in a church.

This is called undue spiritual influence.

Even if no money changed hands between the photographer and the church. Although that, which would be real corruption since it would have affected the composition of the platform, also demands to be investigated.

I hope that Clive has his petition ready and waiting for 8th May.

The Conservative Party is not the default option, above and beyond mere politics, that the BBC has spent the last Parliament, and especially this General Election campaign, assuming it to be.

Not least in order to hasten the repeal of the absurd law of undue spiritual influence, that law needs to be applied to that party's constituent parts, from London Likud to the Oxfordshire Tory Party At Prayer.