Tory bid to oust East Riding council leader
It's emerged that a number of leading Conservative councillors in the East Riding of Yorkshire have been banned from standing for the party at the next local elections.
A total of ten councillors - including the leader Stephen Parnaby - have been told by Tory officials they are no longer on the party's "approved list" for the election in May next year.
Mr Parnaby told me he didn't want to make any comment when I spoke to him on the phone, but said he would be issuing a full statement.
East Riding's deputy leader Jonathan Owen has also been told he's not on the Tories' approved list.
The Conservative-run authority has been under fire over a number of discretionary pension payments made to council staff who have taken early retirement.
Most controversially, a sum of more that £364,000 was approved for the council's director of corporate resources, Sue Lockwood.
The sidelined Tory councillors have 28 days to appeal.
I'm Tim Iredale, the BBC's Political Editor in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and presenter of the regional Politics Show. This is strictly a "no-spin" zone where the political viewpoint is more Humber Bridge than Westminster Bridge. Your comments and observations are more than welcome. 
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