Herefordshire MP: I am guilty as charged!

COLIN Thomas kindly describes me as a “decent old-fashioned Conservative”, a charge to which I am more than happy to plead guilty (Letters, April 25).

And by implication, he is right to recognise that there are small-c conservatives in every political party, whatever labels they may have.

My leaflets are in the same vein. Unlike a lot of others, they are not negative, they do not make political promises, and they do not seek to stoke culture wars or play identity politics.

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On the contrary, they try to lay out my record in the county over the last 14 years, so that local people can judge it for themselves. I am proud of that record, and I think it bears comparison with that of any MP in the House of Commons.

As for national politics, Herefordians are more than capable of taking a view on that without a lot of unsolicited advice from me or others locally.

And, whatever the goings-on in Westminster, they are more than capable of taking a view of who, whatever their label, is best placed to represent them as their MP.

JESSE NORMAN

MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire