Sick as a Labour politician
Reports of Southampton cabinet minister John Denham's appearance at the early morning press conference this week included a reference to the "low profile" he had supposedly been keeping.
I can exclusively reveal that it was a bit more than a low profile. A stomach bug completely knocked him out of campaigning for 48 hours.
He told me that he only just managed to keep it together to shake the PM's hand on his visit to Southampton.
Which set me thinking... surely there couldn't be more effective dirty tricks than to pass on the virus to the other side? With all the hand-shaking and kissing babies it wouldn't be that difficult!
Welcome to the hustings! I'm Peter Henley, the BBC's political reporter in the south of England. From parish councils in Sussex, to European politics in Oxford, this is the blog for you. 
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