{"id":121609,"date":"2023-11-29T09:59:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T09:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/?p=121609"},"modified":"2023-11-29T09:59:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T09:59:05","slug":"nadine-was-right-tory-chiefs-plot-to-replace-candidate-will-unleash-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/politics\/nadine-was-right-tory-chiefs-plot-to-replace-candidate-will-unleash-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Nadine was right!’ Tory chiefs’ plot to replace candidate will ‘unleash chaos’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rishi Sunak is facing a Tory grassroots revolt amid allegations that Tory election chiefs are trying to ditch a candidate for a safe seat to parachute in a high flier.<\/p>\n

The row has erupted over the selection of a candidate in Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, the seat which former Health Secretary Sajid Javid is vacating at the next election.<\/p>\n

Tory members in the seat picked a local councillor Bradley Thomas infuriating many senior Tories who had wanted former Financial Times journalist Seb Payne, now the director of the Onward thinktank, selected instead.<\/p>\n

After a complaint was made by a single member CCHQ has ordered the local association to hold a “confirmatory vote” at a Special General Meeting (SGM).<\/p>\n

But they have been warned that the “unprecedented move” will “unleash chaos” across the party and that Conservative Party chiefs are “proving Nadine Dorries was right all along”.<\/p>\n

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The former Culture Secretary’s explosive book on the downfall of Boris Johnson, The Plot, has laid bare allegations of a shadowy mafia within the Tories controlling the party through candidate selections and placing people.<\/p>\n

The “confirmatory vote” also has echoes of the Brexit referendum with Remainers pushing for a second vote because they did not like the first result.<\/p>\n

One local member who was involved in the selection pointed out that like Brexit, Cllr Thomas, a Brexiteer, got 52 percent of the votes while Mr Payne, a Remainer, got 48 percent.<\/p>\n

The reason given for the second vote is that there were people involved in the first selection who were ineigible to vote.<\/p>\n

But according to sources close to the process, Cllr Thomas had a majority of five while only two people have been identified as ineligible voters.<\/p>\n

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