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Local Tories have issued a desperate plea for voters not to punish them for the conduct of the Government or 'squalidly-behaving' MPs at council contests.

In an astonishing leaflet, a local Conservative association is urging voters not to make a 'token gesture' against Rishi Sunak's administration this week.

The Prime Minister is expected to suffer a wounding set of local election results on Thursday as the Tories continue to lag in national opinion polls.

But Swanage Conservatives have moaned they 'should not be held responsible for what goes on at and around Westminster'.

They also admitted to Dorset voters they are 'just as angry, upset and frustrated' at the behaviour of Tory MPs as 'so many members of the public'.

Their appeal in the leaflet, passed to MailOnline, was issued ahead of local elections in two days' time - including contests for Swanage Town Council and Dorset Council.

Opponents branded it a 'farce' that local Tories were trying to distance themselves from the party's national politicians and jibed the Conservatives were 'falling apart'.