Tommy Sheridan's new party Solidarity was on the brink of collapse last night after fresh allegations that the left-wing firebrand is in the grip of a custard fetish. 

Senior members of the grassroots socialist movement have condemned Sheridan after newspaper reports claimed he had smeared custard over a photograph of Baroness Thatcher and then licked it off.

Sheridan has been fighting for his political life since stories emerged last month that he had attended a meeting of the right-wing Thursday Club where members would pass round a biography of Sir Keith Joseph, pour custard over their favourite passages and then lick it off.

The waitress who served the club members at a private room in an Edinburgh restaurant said: "I've never seen anything so disgusting in my life.

"It's bad enough that they were glorifying monetarism and deregulation, but to pour custard on it and then lick it off? It sickened me."

Sheridan is certain to face a confidence vote at the next meeting of the party executive after it became clear that his support was now limited to himself, his wife Gail, her aunt Maureen and the editor of the Daily Record.

The Glasgow MSP has protested his innocence claiming that the worst thing he had ever done was read a profile of Eric Heffer in the Spectator while eating a mini-trifle.

One party member said: "It's all very sad. I don't know for certain whether he licks custard or not. All I know is that a few years ago I was at his house and when he went to fetch some mini-trifles I noticed he had a copy of Newsweek with a picture of Milton Freidman on the cover.

"Now I'm not saying that he had poured custard on it and then licked it off, I'm just saying that it was sticky and it smelled of vanilla."

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