The silence from Caroline Righton, the Conservative PPC for St Austell & Newquay, over allegations that she smeared her Lib Dem opponent with a faked message has resulted in the local Lib Dems now raising the issue with David Cameron (letter here).
Whilst I’m not expecting a personal response from him, it’ll be interesting to see how the Tories nationally react.
Failing to back your PPC when they are facing such accusations would be a pretty damning vote of no confidence in Caroline Righton, but on the other hand defending Caroline Righton looks to be pretty near impossible given the evidence against her.
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