ANOTHER Brexit bashing Tory peer was yesterday suspended for backing the Lib Dems – as John Major warned the party is “losing its way”.
Andrew Cooper was booted out the Tory parliamentary party for pledging to vote for the Remainer party in the EU elections.
Lord Cooper – David Cameron’s former strategy chief – is the latest Tory big beast to desert the party and throw their backing behind Vince Cable’s mob.
Arch-Remainer Michael Heseltine has already been suspended for doing the same.
The Tories are expected to suffer a bloodbath in today’s Euro elections as voters punish the crisis-hit party for failing to deliver Brexit.
And as the Tory civil war deepens, Sir John furiously tore into his kparty for kicking out Remainer rebels.
He lashed the “blinkered” decision to suspend the Tory whip from Lord Heseltine.
Sir John – one of the poster boys for the Remain campaign – raged: “I am not the only Conservative who will be dismayed by this decision, which highlights yet again how far our party is moving away from the compassionate and moderate One Nation policies that have enabled the Conservatives to dominate politics for so long.
“If the views of the Michael Heseltines of our party are no longer tolerated within it, then our party has truly lost its way.”
A Tory spokesman said: “Publicly endorsing the candidates of another party is not compatible with taking the Conservative whip in Parliament.”
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