From the Durham coalfield to a leafy village on the outskirts of Cambridge, the passing of Margaret Thatcher continues to be a cause for ebullience in some quarters.

This was certainly the experience of the vice-chair of Cambridge Conservatives while canvassing in a marginal Tory/Lib Dem ward this week:

“I was canvassing in Trumpington when this pensioner got very irate and chased me up the road brandishing his walking stick at me and singing Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead. He followed me for about half an hour singing and waving his stick at me.”

In the parlance of election canvassers, he can mark this pensioner down as “Against”.