Tweet on Tory local election candidates account says teenage girls smell buttery and creamy

A Conservative local election candidate has caused outrage after a post on his account said 16-year-old girls smell buttery [and] creamy.

On Saturday, a post on the Twitter account of Jonty Campbell, who has stood for the party in Preston on a number of occasions, said: Heres the thing with girls 22 or under, they smell massively different to a girl of 28. Girls aged 16 to, say 23, have this buttery, creamy, slightly sweet smell that is unbelievably magnetic.

Campbell is listed on Preston Conservative Association website as holding the position of deputy chair of campaigning. He has been a candidate for the party five times in recent elections and byelections for Preston city council, most recently in Ribbleton in May, where he lost to the Labour party.

The Conservative party has been faced with a number of sex scandals in recent weeks, with one MP, Imran Ahmad Khan, found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy. He stood down but was defended by his former colleague Crispin Blunt, who said he was a victim of a serious miscarriage of justice.