AHC: Make Seb Coe the British prime minister in 2010

As we all know, Coe was a Conservative MP from 1992 until 1997, when he lost his re-election campaign. He was made a life peer in 2000 as a Tory, and later went onto chair the London 2012 bid, and now is chairman of Locog.

However, what if Coe won re-election in 1997? What if the coat-tails of his successful 2005 bid for the Olympics led to him becoming Tory leader in September 2005, and then prime minister in May 2010?
 
As we all know, Coe was a Conservative MP from 1992 until 1997, when he lost his re-election campaign. He was made a life peer in 2000 as a Tory, and later went onto chair the London 2012 bid, and now is chairman of Locog.

However, what if Coe won re-election in 1997? What if the coat-tails of his successful 2005 bid for the Olympics led to him becoming Tory leader in September 2005, and then prime minister in May 2010?

Hmm, bit too much baggage around Seb Coe....
 
He'd need to have been returned in a safe Tory seat. Get him selected for a seat like Chesham and Amersham in 1992 rather than Falmouth and Camborne
 
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