David Vaiani (18/11/09)

The peaceful and sleepy market town of Swaffham in South West Norfolk appears, on the face of it, to be an unlikely location for afull-scale political rebellion. But last night the members of the local Tory association met in an emergency session to vote on whether their prospective parliamentary candidate, Liz Truss, should be deselected. Prior to the meeting David Cameron indicated in the
strongest possible terms that he was opposed to Miss Truss’s deselection. If the members had voted to deselect Miss Truss, Cameron would have been under severe pressure to tear up the rulebook for
choosing Conservative parliamentary candidates. Indeed, some even described this as the Tory leader’s ‘Clause IV moment’…[Continue reading]