Bingham rated as only '48% progressive' on 'Rate My Tory' website

The Rate My Tory website has a 'progressive rating' for every Tory candidate in the upcoming General Election. To achieve this, it has given each candidate a score out of 5 for each of 10 categories. Andrew Bingham has his own page, and we'll display the scores below:

Climate Change - 3 out of 5

LGBT Rights - ? out of 5

Inheritance Tax - 2 out of 5

Hunting Ban - ? out of 5

Public Services - 3 out of 5

Abortion Law Amendment - ? out of 5

Immigration - 2 out of 5

Marriage - 2 out of 5

Human Rights Act - ? out of 5

House of Lords Reform - ? out of 5

Now you'll notice that many of the categories don't have a score, so it may be that Andrew is actually more progressive than it appears, but the site relies on 'crowd sourcing' and has no information in these areas. You can contribute and provide information at the bottom of Bingham's page on the site.

One more thing, this website is the work of Progress, a political organisation linked to the Labour Party, and Blairite at that - so their our claim to be progressive in any meaningful sense is, to say the least, tenuous. This is essentially one bunch of right-wingers criticising another. Nonetheless, it's an interesting and useful resource in our quest to paint a picture of Andrew Bingham.

The High Peak Conservative Association website - who is behind it?

Here's something that's a bit puzzling. If you check who has registered the domain name for the High Peak Conservative Association website, you get the following details:

Domain name: hpca.co.uk

Registrant: Bridgewater House

Registrant type: Unknown

Registrant's address:

58 -60 Whitworth Street
Manchester
M1 6LT
United Kingdom

Now you might expect the registrant to be a private individual (in which case no details would appear), or the local Tory party, or perhaps even Central Office. But what we get is a building in Manchester that has a number of occupiers, and none of which have an obvious link to High Peak Conservatives.

We would be grateful for any information we receive about possible lines of inquiry. Of course, it may be entirely innocuous, in which case we'll be glad to set the record straight.