The most Tory place in Britain

You would be wrong. To find the most Conservative spot in the country, don’t look west to the shires. Instead, step on a train from London’s Fenchurch Street station, a place of inexplicable importance to the Monopoly board and rather less importance to the metropolis. From there, travel east past places which lack wellies and pretensions—past Pitsea and Fobbing and Mucking—and just before the train line runs out, and a little before England does, you are there. This is Canvey Island.