A Conservative councillor has been suspended from the party pending an investigation into claims that an allegedly racist poem about illegal immigrants was sent out from her e-mail account.
Ellenor Bland, a Conservative representative of Calne Town Council in Wiltshire, was reported to race-relations watchdogs for the e-mail which talks about Pakistani immigrants coming to Britain to claim welfare benefits.
The poem also appeared on a blog by the Conservative MP Boris Johnson, who said today: “It is an utterly dreadful poem and I condemn it unreservedly. Hundreds of people post material on to the site and I had absolutely no idea it was there.”
Mrs Bland insisted she had not personally sent the poem and that “someone else” had used one of her email