Mark Pack

Caroline Righton, the Conservative candidate in St Austell & Newquay who was previously implicated in the faking of a message that smeared her Liberal Democrat opponent, Stephen Gilbert, has now turned all elusive again: Caroline Righton, is one of only 7 candidates across the whole south west not to respond to a BBC request to [...] »

That’s the question posted by the Western Morning News’s London editor, Matt Chorley: CONSERVATIVE high command make no secret of the importance of the Westcountry to their hopes of winning the general election, but there seems to be growing unease in the region about the impact (negative or non-existent) their leader is having on voters… Speaking to [...] »

On Sunday Stephen blogged about the behaviour of Caroline Righton, the Conservative candidate for St Austell & Newquay, whose campaign is being accused of faking a message about her Liberal Democrat opponent, Stephen Gilbert, in a botched smear attempt. The story has also been taken up on quite a few other Lib Dem blogs so, bearing [...] »

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 [...] »

Matt Davies has the story about how Tory candidate Caroline Righton looks to have tried to smear her Lib Dem opponent in St Austell & Newquay, Stephen Gilbert, by faking a message. Although the story have been taken up by quite a few other bloggers (including Andrew Reeves, Nich Starling and Lib Dem Voice), I've [...] »