Conservative Party Chairman, Eric Pickles, has paid a visit to Telford to meet with local residents ahead of next week’s General Election.

Off to a rallying start, Tom Biggins’ General Election campaign to become the first Conservative MP in Telford gained Ministerial support today with a visit to the town by Shadow Minister, Ken Clarke.

Tom Biggins, Conservative Candidate for Telford, today gave his backing to new Conservative plans to stop a new jobs tax on working families and local firms across the West Midlands.

Tom Biggins, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Telford, organised and chaired a successful meeting in Jubilee House, Madeley, on Monday, 15th March.

“People have a right to know where their food comes from,” says Tom Biggins, Parliamentary Candidate for Telford. “Meat labelled ‘British’ should be born and bred in Britain, and raised to our high welfare standards. It should not suggest it is British when it is not. I think this is dishonest.”

Tom Biggins, Conservative Candidate for Telford, has called on David Wright MP to apologise to Conservative voters in his Telford constituency.

Two new Councillors have been welcomed into the Council's controlling Conservative Group after making historic gains in February's local by-elections.

Tom Biggins today strongly endorsed radical and bold new plans – set out in the Conservatives’ draft election manifesto – to tackle crime and to restore confidence in Britain’s ‘broken’ criminal justice system.

Tom Biggins today expressed concern about the latest figures on economic growth. The Office of National Statistics has announced that in the final quarter of 2009, the economy grew by 0.1%, however many economists have warned that the UK is still at risk of slipping back in to recession later in the year when the figures for Q1 of 2010 are released.

Tom Biggins, Conservative Candidate for Telford, added his voice to calls to help local firms and entrepreneurs in Telford get up running and grow new business.