Tebbit: Put the Lib Dems in fourth place

Norman Tebbit, Conservative backbencher, comments on the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election in the Daily Telegraph:

“Of course, as one who believes that the people of this kingdom should govern themselves, I have an instinctive sympathy with the Ukip candidate and I hope that at the very least he puts the Lib Dem into fourth place.

“A Lib Dem win would tilt the coalition even farther left and away from Conservative policies.

“A Labour win would give the wild men of the TUC great encouragement to launch a campaign to ursurp the government by a campaign of industrial action.”