True blue Tories in South Ribble have denied being left red-faced after a national newspaper highlighted an election leaflet in which the party appeared to promise to take the district from being “debt free to debt ridden”.
The seeming slip-up featured in campaign literature issued on behalf of several Conservative candidates seeking to gain or retain a seat on South Ribble Borough Council when residents go to the polls next month.
Five of the bullet points clearly refer to plans that the Tories have if they take control of the council after the vote on 4th May, such as creating “a green and cleaner South Ribble”. However, as The Mirror first reported, the fifth of the six pointers simply states: “From debt free to debt ridden.”
An inside page of the pamphlet – of which the LDRS has seen three bespoke versions – does provide further detail on each of the six points, including the Tory claims about the council’s finances. But Cllr Foster mocked what Labour have seized upon as being a glaring front-page gaffe.
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