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Travels in Eastern Region - Witham visit

 
My campaigning to win a seat in the European Parliament next June takes me far and wide across this wonderful East Anglia of our's...
Along with Marcus Hemsley of Norwich and local C'llr. James Abbott I did a spot of canvassing yesterday in Witham in Essex, in a ward where there are a couple of byelections on Oct. 2. It was an exciting experience -- we met no-one intending to vote Labour or LibDem, but quite a number of people who were already intending to or soon persuaded to vote for us -- including some previous Tory voters! We met only a couple of diehard Tories.
I also met the candidates and local activists, and the whole experience was very positive (and James Abbott's Mum made me a lovely cup of rooibos tea afterward!)...
 

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