You can take the soldier out of the Army, but you can’t take the Army out of a former serviceman… Meeting Tom Tugendhat, Conservative MP for Tonbridge and Malling, and a former lieutenant colonel who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, is quite the military operation.
As I follow his PA through the labyrinthine passages leading to his modest office off an anonymous corridor in the House of Commons, I reassure her that I will only need an hour of Tugendhat’s time. “Actually, you are scheduled for 45 minutes,” she says. And right on cue comes a knock on the door exactly three quarters of an hour after we meet.
