Sir Edward du Cann obituary

Controversial Conservative MP and businessman who was once a contender for the party leadershipEveryone has their moment. Edward du Cann, who has died aged 93, had his after the second general election in 1974. Although he had never held cabinet office, he was for a brief period a serious candidate for the leadership of the Conservative party. It was Du Cann himself, for reasons that were never quite clear, who withdrew on the grounds that his wife would not enjoy being married to a party leader