Conservatives website glitch ‘reveals’ non-target Tory seats

With the Tory’s Black & White Tie Ball to prepare for yesterday, it’s understandable that the brains at Conservative HQ may not have been 100 per cent focussed. This could explain why an error on the website appeared to reveal the party’s non-target seats for the election.

Images of the varying candidates on the Conservative website showed in the url if they were listed as a ‘non target candidate’.

Memo to Conservatives: including “Non%20target%20candidates” in URLs is a bit of a giveaway https://t.co/QGy7v7aphm pic.twitter.com/M6WCraLDVn

— Phil Rodgers (@PhilRodgers) February 9, 2015

Included in the list of non-target seats were South Thanet, Boston and Skegness, and Rochester and Strood. If this is the case, it would mean the Conservatives are not investing priority campaigning funds there, a curious move given that Ukip is targeting each.

However, far from worried Mr S hears that the Conservative party are unfazed by the website blunder. A Tory source tells Steerpike that any political analysis of the list is ‘completely wrong’.