Published recently on the ConservativeHome website Lord Ashcroft's blog: Hope for St Helena - a copy of which follows here... It had been more than 68 years since I last set foot on St Helena, famously the fortress home to Napoleon Bonaparte after his exile, yet I quickly learnt that some things do not change. Its 4,500 residents are as friendly, fun-loving and relaxed as ever: strangers say a cheery “hello” in the street, drivers wave to you from the open windows of their cars, houses remain unlocked at night because the crime rate is so low and ignition keys get left for days in unlocked, parked vehicles. St Helena, a volcanic island that first erupted out of the South Atlantic some 15 mi
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