Election 2017: South Suffolk general election campaign gets into gear
The General Election campaign in South Suffolk has stepped up a gear with the launch of the Conservative campaign by James Cartlidge.
His supporters gathered outside St Peter’s Church in Sudbury to launch his campaign on Saturday once the county council elections were over.
He will be challenged by Labour’s Emma Bishton, who fought the seat in 2010. Her party finished second in the seat two years ago. Liberal Democrat Andrew Aalders-Dunthorne will be trying to win back support in a seat that his party had once seen as a possible target.
Also joining them on the ballot paper will be Green candidate Robert Lindsay, fresh from his success in the county council elections when he snatched the Cosford division from the Tories in an eye-catching result.
Mr Cartlidge is defending a 17,545 majority from 2015 in a seat which stretches from Clare and Glemsford in the west to Shotley Gate.
Published by the East Anglian Daily Times.