Tory party suspends Michael Heseltine for backing Lib Dems

Heseltine’s position would be ‘reviewed if he is willing to support Conservative candidates at future elections’. Photograph: Yui Mok/PALord Heseltine has had the Conservative whip suspended after saying he would vote Liberal Democrat in this week’s European elections, the party has said. The Tory grandee and former deputy prime minister, who sits in the upper chamber of parliament, was summoned to a meeting with the party’s chief whip in the Lords on Monday. &ldquo