Rishi Sunak is under pressure from Conservative MPs to “kick off” a controversial rightwing politician from the party’s approved candidates’ list after his grassroots organisation campaigned to deselect Tory MPs and attacked the integrity of the privileges committee inquiry into Boris Johnson.
David Campbell Bannerman, a former deputy leader of the UK Independence party (Ukip) who defected back to the Tories in 2011, has said he wants to stand for the safe South Norfolk constituency, where the party had a majority of just over 21,000 at the last general election.
