Alun Cairns MP wins London Marathon

By Paul Goodman
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There's was legend in my family that the Jewish Chronicle once reported a race with the headline: "Goldstein seventeenth".

I apologise if my headline is also somewhat parochial, and rather less accurate.  But as far as I can see Cairns was the fastest Conservative MP round the course.

A good deal of money will have been raised for charity today - and so much the better.  A glancing references in dispatches, too, for the MPs from other parties who took part.