Hampshire County Council Conservative Group

The Castle, Winchester, Hampshire. SO23 8UG

Conservative Group News Release

30th April, 2112

Call for Lib Dems to Retract Untrue Statements in Election Leaflets

Ken Thornber, Leader of Hampshire County Council, has called on Lib Dems to withdraw untrue statements about the County Council printed in Election Literature being circulated by Lib Dems in Eastleigh He Says, I have been handed copies of electioneering literature being widely circulated across Eastleigh Borough that wrongly accuses the Conservative run Hampshire County Council of a number of things including, trying to build 6.000 more houses around Hedge End and Botley. This is totally untrue. The literature also wrongly accuses the County Council of wanting to sell land, it does not own, for housing development. These allegations are clearly being made in an attempt to mislead the electorate into voting for their candidates in the forthcoming Borough Elections and unless they immediately retract these statements and deliver these retractions to every household in the Borough that has received them before polling day, I shall have no alternative but to refer the matter to the Electoral Commission for their adjudication. During the last General Election a Labour Party Candidates election was declared void by the electoral commission for publishing misleading statements about the opposition designed to influence the result of his election to Parliament.