BEFORE the Prime Minister's recent visit to the North West, a senior Labour spokesman sneered: "I don't know how he's the nerve to show himself in Lancashire. He's not wanted here."

However, Mr Major was cheered everywhere he went, especially at British Aerospace where, thanks to a new order, 14,000 jobs have been safeguarded.

I believe that the next General Election is going to be very interesting. As it comes nearer, Tory voters who have deserted the party in the last couple of years are returning to the fold.

And the Labour Party who thought it was in the bag is beginning to panic.

D PEARSON (Mr), Vice-chairman, Blackburn Conservative Party, Rawstorne Street, Blackburn.

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