Labour's Tom Watson joins battle for north east Wales
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson was drafted in to help fight previously safe seats in north east Wales.
Mr Watson visited Delyn, Alyn and Deeside and Wrexham on Friday in an bid to shore up support in the Conservative target seats.
He also stopped in the Vale of Clwyd which the party lost narrowly to the Tories in the last General Election .
In Wrexham, where he spoke to activists volunteering for the campaign of sitting MP, Ian Lucas, he said: “It’s fantastic to be with you here in the last three weeks of this unexpected General Election campaign.
“It’s unexpected because the Prime Minister of nine months told us solemnly on eight occasions that it wasn’t in the national interest to have a General Election. And what changed? She got a little bit of a bigger lead in the polls and decided to act in her party’s interest.”
Recent polling has suggested the Labour Party could face an historic wipe out with all of the party’s North Wales seats at stake as it tries to fight off a Tory surge in popularity.
Mr Watson added: “I am here today to support Ian because I have seen the campaigns he has run in Wrexham over many years. Whether it’s fighting government cuts when they were making the tax offices redundant, he knows how important it is to bring jobs to the area. And in 16 years as an MP he has a track record you can be proud of.”
He went on to slam the Conservative Party’s manifesto that was launched last week saying it was an attack on the working people of the country.
“There are 12,000 reasons why we need to be out on the doorstep because there are 12,000 pensioners who are facing having their winter fuel allowance taken away from them in Tory cuts used to give tax cuts to the very richest in our society.
“We don’t want to do that. We want those billionaires to pay a little bit more tax so that we can invest in health and public services, in education, in making sure our trains run on time and we can increase our energy and transport infrastructure.”
