Tory councillor Alexis McEvoy has resigned as a conservative party member after she called Ian Wright a ‘typical black hypocrite’ after he vowed to quit the BBC's Match Of The Day programme if they sacked Gary Lineker.
It was sent out to her 500 followers, but it quickly caused uproar and sparked an investigation from Hampshire police.
She has now resigned from the Conservative Party and stood down from her role on the New Forest National Park Authority , and is no longer a governor of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. The councillor will now sit on New Forest District Council and Hampshire County Council as an independent member.
In a statement following the outcry, Cllr McEvoy said: ‘I am aware that a tweet I sent, and then deleted, has caused offence.‘I find racism in any form abhorrent, I have therefore reported myself to the monitoring officer at both Hampshire County Council and New Forest District Council and have suspended myself from both the Conservative groups at New Forest District Council and Hampshire County Council, pending investigations.
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