David Camerons 'no straight white males' shortlist backfires in Surrey East

Left: Sam Gyimah PPC for Surrey East (Con)

Conservatives in Surrey East are calling for Mr Gyimah's deselection on dishonest financial activitiy grounds. Mr Gyimah has reponded to concerns about his suitability for the 15,000 (Con) majority seat as ....'racist'.

Rod Liddle reports: There’s a revolt growing in the Surrey East Conservative Association about the candidate imposed upon them by David Cameron - a black businessman called Sam Gyimah.

Some locals insist that Sam’s business ventures have been rather, you know, iffy and they were not terribly happy to have “selected” him from a shortlist which contained no straight, white males or indeed members of the Bullingdon Club. The implication is that Mr Cameron is so desperate to have black people standing as Tory candidates he would cheerfully have imposed upon Surrey East Robert Mugabe, Cheerful Charlie Taylor of Liberia or Ghost Face Killah out of Outkast, given the chance, but ended up with Sam instead. read more