Shadow Home Secretary Visits Coalville

On Friday we had Chris Grayling the Conservative Shadow Home Secretary visiting the police station in Coalville and out on the beat with local policemen around the centre of Coalville. The visit was a great success and gave Chris the chance to have informal discussions with the senior local officers about his ideas to improve policing and streamline the paperwork, targets and bureaucracy.

Prior to visiting North West Leicestershire Mr Grayling had been visiting the High School in Shepshed with Nicky Morgan the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Loughborough. There is no doubt that having a shadow cabinet member in the constituency gives our campaign a huge boost. The last time Chris was in our constituency was in his role as Shadow Transport Minister back in 2007 just before the 'election that never was', when Brown bottled out off calling a snap election. Many thanks to Inspector Chris Brown and sergeant Paul Harrison for organizing the visit.

On Friday evening we were out canvassing in the Whitwick Ward and our teams had very encouraging results. Once again many thanks to the volunteers who support our efforts with such vigour and determination.