Conservative Edmund Limerick switches to Lib Dems
Apologies: First Draft News report that this is a hoax: “we debunked it in one of our emails to our newsrooms partners”. The original tweet with the fake story is preserved below.
In a fillip for the Liberal Democrats on the day of the party’s general election manifesto launch, Conservative Edmund Pery, the 7th Earl of Limerick, has joined the party.
A lawyer and former Foreign Office staffer, who once wrote an election manifesto in poetry form, his switch has been motivated by Brexit:
Note: he is a hereditary peerĀ but has not been elected to be a continuing member of the House of Lords.
The origin of the hoax
Is it possible to get confirmation of this from other sources?
Who is the ‘David’ the letter is addressed to?
Simon: a Conservative official.