Major Narindar Saroop, cavalry officer, clubman and Tory candidate of traditional views – obituary
Major Narindar Saroop, cavalry officer, clubman and Tory candidate of traditional views – obituary He wrote letters to The Telegraph on race relations, and in a memoir wrote that he strove to keep ‘fools, boredom and socialism at bay’ Saroop: touched by the spirit of Wodehouse Credit: Lucy Young/Evening Standard/eyevine Major Narindar Saroop, who has died aged 91, was the first person of Asian background to be chosen as a Conservative parliamentary candidate in the 20th century, when he ran a dashing though unsuccessful campaign in Greenwich during the 1979 general election. At a time w...
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