Tory co-chairman Feldman to face meeting over 'swivel-eyed loons' claim

Party board's involvement likely to dismay No 10, which has spent weekend rubbishing reports in Times and Daily Telegraph Lord Feldman, the Conservative co-chairman, is to be challenged at a meeting of the party board on Monday over allegations that he made disparaging remarks about Tory grassroots activists. As the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, led a cabinet fightback on behalf of Feldman, who denies having described activists as "mad, swivel-eyed loons", a member of the Tory party board said ...