We held the first of what I hope will be many Conservative Action Days on Saturday. We’ve already done a few smaller action days - including one against Labour’s NHS cuts - but this was event was on a different scale with more than 30 activists taking to the streets of Lewes and Newhaven.

We spent the morning in Lewes, distributing leaflets in Landport as well as meeting and greeting people in the town centre. We also gathered signatures for a new petition calling for improvements to the parking regime in the town - something that gained widespread support from the people we met. Our mobile campaign unit was also out in the town and got lots of interest.

In the afternoon we headed to the centre of Newhaven and to Denton, where the focus was on my call for the creation of a Newhaven Development Corporation to bring more investment into the town. You can read more about this in our latest In Touch magazine, which is being distributed across the constituency as we speak.

It was a great day and signalled the official start of our campaign to get results for our area. Norman Baker and the Lib Dems have had more than a decade now to get results for our area but have failed to deliver. Where are our flood defences? Why aren’t our roads safer? Why is Lib Dem Lewes District Council still missing its recycling targets year after year? Our area deserves so much better. It’s time for results. It’s time for an end to Lib Dem failure.