21-12-2004, 02:58 AM
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Tory party sacks Falmouth association leaders
Telegraph
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Virtually the entire leadership of a Conservative association was sacked yesterday for allegedly promoting the UK Independence Party.
The party's ruling board sought to end a series of rows involving Tories in the marginal seat of Falmouth and Camborne by dismissing the local chairman and four other officers.
A sixth officer, Mike Varney, a local councillor, was sacked for denouncing Ashley Crossley, the Tories' prospective parliamentary candidate, as a "sanctimonious ****" and speaking out to the media over the association's troubles.
However, Mr Varney was cleared of making an anti-homosexual remark about Mr Crossley, who survived an attempt in September to deselect him after Michael Howard, the Tory leader, pledged his personal support.
The Cornish constituency, now held by Labour with a slim 4,527 majority but once represented by Sebastian Coe, is one of the Tories' key target seats.
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