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“I m surprised and disappointed,” Tory MP Tom Randall said.
A Labour councillor has been accused of “pilfering” a Tory election leaflet from a voter’s letterbox and replacing it with her own.
Tory MP Tom Randall shared a video of the Labour campaigner which showed her reaching inside the letterbox, pulling out a leaflet, and inserting a red replacement leaflet.
Randall described it as “Labour pilfering” and said he was “surprised and disappointed” to see what he said was an “experienced councillor”, who he did not name, behaving like that.
The Gedling MP posted the video on Wednesday, on the eve of today’s so-called “super Thursday” local elections which will give Keir Starmer his first electoral test against Boris Johnson.
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After rummaging around the letterbox flap for a bit, while checking through the door s window to see if anyone is watching her, she retrieves the red and blue Conservative leaflet.
In one deft move she then shoves a Labour leaflet through the letterbox in its place before calmly walking off.
Pictured: Councillor Rachael Ellis
Conservative MP for Gedling Tom Randall, 39, was made aware of the incident after one of his constituents emailed him the shocking footage.
Mr Randall said: I m surprised and disappointed to see an experienced Gedling Labour councillor removing Conservative election material that had been delivered to a house in Arnold North.