This has to be one of the most bizarre rebuttals from a Conservative spin doctor in a long, long time (well, at least since the Grant Shapps password incident).
When questioned about David Cameron’s less than flattering comments about gay rights back in 2000 (when he wasn’t yet an MP), a Tory spokesman responded to the New Statesman thus:
But a spokesman tried to brush off the comments. “It was only as a candidate. If you know how politics works you’ll see why being a candidate is different to being an MP,” he said.
In other words – doesn’t matter what you say as a candidate because that doesn’t count if you’re elected as an MP. Glad we’ve got that one cleared up.
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Of course he was a candidate in a constituency where the MP had taken a public stance on gay rights and left the party as a result.
To be fair, I think it’s true to say that a candidate is more likely to toe the party line than speak ker/his mind.