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UKIP don’t whip

Published: 6:00 AM May 26, 2013
Updated: 6:43 PM November 7, 2020

I read with interest that Stuart Hughes believes that he has been demoted because he did not toe the Conservative Party line over local issues.

As a UKIP councillor he would have no such problems as we do not whip our councillors on local matters of conscience.

Lawrie Brownlee

Station Road

Sidmouth

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