A Conservative general election candidate has today quit after it emerged that he made lurid sexual comments about women.
Magistrate Sam Trask pulled out of the race to stand in Bridgend, Wales after it was revealed that he once boasted his favourite bra size measuring technique was “hand sizing them by feel”.
Confronted over the remarks, he apologised and said he had “decided to withdraw as a candidate”.
It comes as a fresh row erupted for the Tories after an MP was deselected from the Scottish Tory party to make way for Douglass Ross, who previously claimed to only focus on Holyrood.
The U-turn sparked a wave of furore with SNP campaign director claiming the decision to replace David Duguid, who recently had spinal surgery, represents a “day of shame for the Tories”.
In response, Stewart Hosie blasted: “The way the Tories have treated Mr Duguid is indefensible. The nasty party just got nastier.”
The PM suffered a further blow after he was branded “a man with no integrity” for accepting a further £5m from a donor accused of making racist comments about a senior MP, the Labour Party chair has claimed.
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In this piece, Joe Murphy asks: could Sunak’s performance turn him into a real contender?
He writes: “Edifying it was not. But the first leader’s debate of the 2024 election was undeniably livelier than the dreary arguments between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn in 2019.
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