Tory setback as candidate is suspended over gay slur
David Cameron has suffered embarrassment after a Scottish Conservative candidate was suspended from the election campaign for describing gay people as “not normal”.
The comments by Philip Lardner, standing in the Labour stronghold of North Ayrshire and Arran, were described as deeply offensive and unacceptable by a party spokeswoman, but allowed Labour to claim that the incident showed the Tories were still the “nasty” party.
