Blaby
Conservative hold

The seat associated from 1974 to 1992 with Mrs Thatcher's Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson is one of several centred on the suburbs of Leicester, which is a much bigger place than often credited when its satellites outside the formal boundaries are taken into account. Here are to be found Blaby itself, a number of other suburban areas, and some miles of countryside as far as the small town of Lutterworth. This is everything that the seats within Leicester are not: almost all white, owner occupied, middle class, and safely Tory at all levels, giving Andrew Robathan a 6,000 majority even after the standard double figure swing to Labour in 1997.

Andrew Robathan, born 1951, public school and Oxford (Merchant Taylor's and Oriel) - educated and a former Guards officer, won this seat in 1992. A contributor to the ‘Bearing the Standard' call in 1991 for social cohesion, but with private health,welfare and prisons, he was a Redwood-supporting Eurosceptic, an opponent of the politically correct inclusion of women in combative Army roles, and speaks against homosexual sex at sixteen by evoking Oscar Wilde's penchant for under-aged boys. A cycling environmentalist, he also urges defence of the threatened water vole (‘Ratty' in ‘Wind in the Willows') from its predator, the feral mink.

Blaby District Council

Area Percent GB Percent Index GB=100   Thriving Wealthy Achievers, Suburban Areas 22.79% 14.99% 152.03 Affluent Greys, Rural Communities 0.00% 2.13% 0.00 Prosperous Pensioners, Retirement Areas 0.05% 2.49% 1.91 Expanding Affluent Executives, Family Areas 13.34% 4.43% 301.53 Well-Off Workers, Family Areas 26.97% 7.27% 370.85 Rising Affluent Urbanites, Town & City Areas 0.12% 2.56% 4.51 Prosperous Professionals, Metropolitan Areas 0.00% 2.04% 0.00 Better-Off Executives, Inner City Areas 0.05% 3.94% 1.21 Settling Comfortable Middle Agers, Mature Home Owning Areas 15.06% 13.04% 115.47 Skilled Workers, Home Owning Areas 14.44% 12.70% 113.69 Aspiring New Home Owners, Mature Communities 5.76% 8.14% 70.69 White Collar Workers, Better-Off Multi Ethnic Areas 0.34% 4.02% 8.41 Striving Older People, Less Prosperous Areas 1.06% 3.19% 33.15 Council Estate Residents, Better-Off Homes 0.00% 11.31% 0.00 Council Estate Residents, High Unemployment 0.03% 3.06% 0.92 Council Estate Residents, Greatest Hardship 0.00% 2.52% 0.00 People in Multi-Ethnic, Low-Income Areas 0.00% 2.10% 0.00 Unclassified Unclassified 0.00% 0.06% 0.00

Area Percent GB Percent Index GB=100   £0-5K 6.27% 9.41% 66.65 £5-10K 13.67% 16.63% 82.18 £10-15K 15.70% 16.58% 94.72 £15-20K 14.13% 13.58% 104.04 £20-25K 11.49% 10.39% 110.52 £25-30K 8.92% 7.77% 114.78 £30-35K 6.80% 5.79% 117.37 £35-40K 5.14% 4.33% 118.74 £40-45K 3.89% 3.27% 119.23 £45-50K 2.96% 2.48% 119.10 £50-55K 2.26% 1.90% 118.54 £55-60K 1.74% 1.47% 117.68 £60-65K 1.34% 1.15% 116.64 £65-70K 1.05% 0.91% 115.48 £70-75K 0.82% 0.72% 114.26 £75-80K 0.65% 0.57% 113.01 £80-85K 0.52% 0.46% 111.76 £85-90K 0.41% 0.37% 110.52 £90-95K 0.33% 0.31% 109.33 £95-100K 0.27% 0.25% 108.17 £100K + 1.37% 1.34% 102.03