Conservative MP Tim Yeo deselected
MP Tim Yeo has been deselected as Conservative candidate for the South Suffolk constituency.
PM's support did not help Yeo, says Tory peer
Tory peer Lord Tebbit has told ITV News Anglia that David Cameron's support for de-selected Tim Yeo may have worked against him.
The South Suffolk MP lost his battle to be re-selected by his party yesterday following a secret ballot of 600 members.
In November, Mr Yeo was dropped as prospective parliamentary candidate for South Suffolk by the association's executive committee.
But last week, David Cameron threw his support behind the MP, writing a letter urging him to stand in the 2015 election.
Today Lord Tebbit, a former cabinet member and former Conservative Party chairman, said that, given "the mood of the party at the moment, I'm not sure the support of the PM was helpful".
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Ousted Suffolk MP warns PM over Eurosceptic 'obsessives'
The ousted Suffolk MP Tim Yeo says the Tories are doomed to lose the 2015 election if David Cameron gives in to Eurosceptic "obsessives".
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Ex-Minister Yeo de-selected as MP
Former minister Tim Yeo has lost his battle to be re-selected as the Tory candidate in South Suffolk.