Paul Vallely gets behind the wheel to visit the constituencies at the top of the Conservatives' target list
The road to power in Britain today does not run towards Westminster. It runs from east to west. It starts near Hull at the seemingly solid Conservative seat of Haltemprice and Howden, seat of the maverick Tory David Davis, and traverses the Pennines, along the M62 motorway, to the newly created constituency of Sefton Central in rock-solid Labour Liverpool. This is the area where Election 2010 will be won or lost.
The M62 runs through a corridor of seats which were once traditional Tory territory but which fell to New Labour in the 1997 Blair landslide. When the Conservative election campaign began, the Tories' chief constituency strategist, Lord Ashcroft, decided to focus on a few score key seats which had to be won if David Cameron were to arrive on Downing Street with even the slimmest majority.
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