The Source loves it when politicians pick up nicknames – especially when they appear unlikely.

Take a bow Nigel “The Terminator” Huddleston, the Tories’ parliamentary candidate for Mid-Worcestershire, who has a link to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The high-flying Google executive is such a political fanatic that he actually volunteered to help good old Arnie himself in his 2003 campaign to become Governor of California.

The Source reckons, therefore, that one of the world’s biggest film and bodybuilding icons still owes Mr Huddleston a return favour.

Will Arnie be knocking the doors of Evesham, Droitwich and Bricklehampton with a blue rosette, telling bewildered householders: “I’ll be back”?

Will he be seen searching for one of Sarah Connor’s offspring around the fields of Broadway, or would his presence ‘terminate’ Mr Huddleston’s career before it really started?

* TALKING of Mid-Worcestershire, The Source was sent the Conservative Party’s “long list” of 13 potential parliamentary candidates a few days ago, which dates back to early December, before Mr Huddleston was selected.

Among the fallen were one of the country’s best criminal barristers, a leading QC, two other high-flying lawyers, a Tory think-tank director and a special adviser to Theresa May.

Apart from our Nigel, the nearest candidate with any experience of the ‘real world’ appears to be a psychiatrist, Dr Michelle Tempest, who for whatever reason didn’t make the final shortlist of four.

Surely the Conservative Party would benefit from having a psychiatrist in Parliament?

* WORCESTER MP Robin Walker is getting the hang of Twitter, using it to pump out all manner of information to his 850-odd followers around the clock.

But on the day of Education Secretary Michael Gove’s visit last Friday, he chose not to refer to it at all, waiting until the weekend to start pumping out details on what the minister had been doing.

Members of Worcester Labour Party, in classic praying mantis style, are now suggesting Mr Walker kept it hush on the day itself to avoid protests.

Everywhere he goes, Mr Gove tends to fall into controversy – after his Worcester trip he went to nearby Stroud, in Gloucestershire, to be greeted by 100 placard-waving students, activists, teaching union members and rival politicians.

On his Gloucestershire trip the crowd delighted in chanting “Gove Home”, an idea nicked from a similar protest at a school in Bedford back in November.