Ian Liddell-Grainger has been branded unfit for purpose by local Tories. The Conservative MP is facing calls to be deselected as a Tory candidate for the general election, with Conservative councillors in West Somerset passing a vote of no confidence in him.
The Tories on the council are cross because he’s allegedly made ‘gratuitously derogatory and offensive comments about West Somerset Council, its leaders and some of its councillors and officers’. The charge sheet includes other accusations of bullying and immoral and dishonourable behaviour.
Liddell-Grainger is certainly an outspoken chap. When his constituency was flooded last year, he said of Environment Agency chief Chris Smith that ‘If I just have to stick his head down the loo and flush, I will’. Mr Steerpike hopes that it will all come out in the wash.
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