The Tories are battling bad press almost every day now, what with rumours of rebellions and leadership challenges on top of a number of unflattering polls. The party might have hoped, then, that if former Conservative MPs wanted to raise party-specific concerns they would do so in private — rather than adding publicly to the party’s woes. Not so. Today, former government minister Sir Alan Duncan gave a fiery media performance to LBC when he came out gunning for certain Tory bigwigs — and even called for security minister Tom Tugendhat to be sacked. And now, in a further development only hours after his outburst, Duncan has been placed under investigation by the Conservative party. Crikey.
Duncan launched into the furious tirade on Nick Ferrari’s morning programme when discussing the subject of Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine. ‘There are a lot of people at the top of our own politics who refuse to condemn settlements, and therefore are not supporters of international law,’ he told Ferarri.
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