Back in Morecambe on a doorstep in the Ryelands estate, one of the poorest parts of Lone's constituency, one girl, still dressed in her pyjamas in the afternoon, describes how her sister recently lost her baby after breaking her back.
What follows, in response to a doorstep visit from Ben Gummer, the local Conservative MP, is so drearily predictable the wonder is that Phil bothered with the caveat.On a personal level, he has no problem with the Iraqi (or possibly Iranian, it's hard to tell, isn't it?) asylum-seekers next door.
A sense of claustrophobia and helplessness is present in other work, too: three children shiver on a doorstep in one painting of the same year; military helicopters on combat operations and the hazy, anonymous figures of uniformed personnel are regular motifs.
For some reason there are some people who you end up outside in the smoking area of some house party with at 5AM, hunkered on a doorstep in that way that mums say gives you piles, and you both have your arms huddled around in front of your knees, and they go – they say something innocuous, like, "So, how's it going?
For some reason there are some people who you end up outside in the smoking area of some house party with at 5 AM, hunkered on a doorstep in that way that moms say gives you piles, and you both have your arms huddled around in front of your knees, and they go they say something innocuous, like, "So, how's it going?
In a scene that could have taken place 50 years ago, a gang of boys in shorts play a game with bits of string on a doorstep, while in the shade nearby, the slower fingers of men in woolly hats click backgammon pieces.
On a doorstep in Dewsbury, Dorothy Hague promised Sherriff her vote.
A pair of brown leather boots was snatched last week from a doorstep in the suburbs of Chicago.
That was the brutal message that confronted the Labour party candidate Suzy Stride on a doorstep in Harlow, Essex, during last year's general election.
