Visiting Number Ten

To Downing Street this evening with Harlow Conservative Chairman Cllr Clive Souter. We were there on invitation of the Prime Minister. It was a great event - and good to chat with other MPs and senior party figures.

The Prime Minister was on good form - and gave those present a much needed boost in advance of the Alternative Vote (AV) referendum and Local Elections in May.

Defending our current voting system - First Past the Post - the PM made a simple point: it worked and was simple to understand. Those with the most votes won. By contrast AV was very complicated, is a boon to smaller extreme parties and was only used by two countries in the world - Australia and Fiji.

P.S. The pictures show Clive and I outside Number Ten, and inside with Broxbourne MP Charles Walker. The photo of the room is where Mrs Thatcher used to work - her picture now adorns the wall.

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