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Tory candidate quits after sharing inappropriate photos from kids' club nights (www.mirror.co.uk)

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Wannabe Tory MP Adam Gregg, who has rubbed shoulders with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, has withdrawn from the election race – saying the 'events were of their time'

Christ, they'll be no Tories left at this rate. Although, that's not a bad thing.

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[–] frog@beehaw.org 10 points 5 months ago

As of Friday, when the deadline for candidates closed, the Tories had got candidates into all but one of the UK seats (and a few in NI). With this rush to get slots filled, it was obvious that there would be a few repeats of what happened with Labour in Rochdale in February, because they had so clearly picked whoever was available just so they had someone in each seat. I rather suspect this is the first of several withdrawals we'll see over the next week or two - probably another Tory or two, and almost certainly a couple from Reform as well.