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A Conservative local election candidate has revealed her posters are being ripped down and burned as she described how some voters are citing Boris Johnson as a reason for not backing the Tories ahead of this week's poll.
Dawn Denton, a Tory candidate for Somerset County Council, also claimed she would not be attending a hustings event in Frome because she doesn't think 'nasty' locals will give her a fair hearing.
The account will raise fears among Conservatives that the party could suffer a local election drubbing on Thursday, amid a backlash at the Partygate scandal that has rocked the Prime Minister and voter despair at the cost-of-living crisis.
There are fears that 'Blue Wall' areas in the south of England could switch from the Tories to either the Liberal Democrats or Labour on Thursday.
Those concerns among Conservatives have been heightened by claims the Lib Dems and Labour have entered into a secret electoral pact.
It is claimed this has seen them stand aside in areas where the other party might be better placed to beat the Tories - although Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has denied such a pact has been agreed.
Pollsters have found that the Lib Dems could this week be set to gain the new single unitary authority in Somerset, to which Ms Denton is seeking election.
Speaking to the Telegraph, she described how her election posters were getting
