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A bitter relative has branded her sister-in-law’s decision to gift £750,000 to the Tories in her will as “wicked.”

Elsie Clark said she was astonished to learn Violet Baker had handed the cash to David Cameron’s party – and revealed her family are staunch Labour supporters.

Mrs Clark said brother Ray, who served with the Ghurkas in the army, had collected the fortune by careful saving and making wise investments in shares.

But the 88-year-old has been left furious by the will, and revealed she was unable to even afford a new easy access bath because she isn’t able to get into her own.

Violet, who lived in Kilmorie Road, Acocks Green, and had no children, left a total of £769,000 to the Conservatives when she died.

Mrs Clark, who is a great-grandmother of five, remembered her brother opening his first bank account when he was 17.

She said: “I’m thinking ‘what did he save all that money for?’ And to do what she’s done with it – she’s done that for spite.

“All that money was left to her and she didn’t want any of us to get our hands on it, she was a wicked woman.”

Ray grew from very humble beginnings – as a baby he lived in a ‘back-to-back’ in Small Heath but went on to amass a fortune through being frugal and buying the right shares.

Mrs Clark revealed that his wife Violet had never shown strong political beliefs, making her gift to the Tories even more baffling.

When asked about Violet’s politics Mrs Clark said: “I don’t know what she was. She wouldn’t go out to vote in an election.

“I’d say to the Tories ‘good luck to you, but I’m still waiting for a bath!’”

Former mental health nurse Mrs Clark lives in a council bungalow in Redditch.

She said brother Ray, who had been an army sergeant, had dreamed of going on a voyage and returning to look after the Gurkhas whom he had served with at the end of the Second World War.

Mrs Clark said: “He said ‘Elsie, if anything happens to Violet you won’t see me ever again’. He said he would go back and live with the Gurkhas as he said ‘that was the happiest time of my life’.”

She told how if it was up to her the money would have gone to Acorns Children’s Hospice.

“That’s what I’d like to see the Conservatives doing with it,” she said.

“My family was staunch Labour. Our dad was very strict about that. He said ‘as soon as you’re old enough to vote – vote Labour’.”

She spoke fondly of her brother who passed away about three years ago.

“He was the one I was really close to because he was the baby of the family,” said Elsie. “He was the loveliest lad you could’ve wished for. He was so good, so kind.”

Mrs Clark said her offers of help were refused by her sister-in-law, who died aged 85 last March, and admitted she wishes she had some memento of her brother’s life.

“Money doesn’t interest me, I couldn’t care less, but I would have loved a little thing of Ray’s,” she said.

“I knew he’d been saving but I never knew how much he’d got.

“He knew what he was doing, he’d got his head on straight. What a pity he couldn’t realise it all.

“It makes you wonder if it’s worth saving your money and you should enjoy yourself instead.”

Violet’s neighbour Malcolm Baker, who she left £2,000, after he helped out looking after her said he thought the Tories ought to buy him a new car to replace his old Rover.

The 64-year-old Land Rover worker, who told how he did her weekly shopping and took her meals, said: “I hope they will be nice and buy me a car because mine’s 21 years old!”

Violet never mentioned she was a Tory, he said, but added: “She mentioned she was going to listen to the Labour party conference.”

The Mail asked the Tory party whether any of the donation might be given to the Acorns.

A party spokesman said: “All donations accepted by the Conservative Party are fully permissible and declared to the Electoral Commission.

“She made the stipulation of how the money would be used. It’s for her lawyers to decide where the money goes.”