Crime and welfare feature prominently in Tories' Corby campaign

By Tim Montgomerie
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Remember how Blair and Brown ducked going to tricky by-elections? David Cameron was in Corby today to support the campaign of our candidate Chris Emmett. The party insists it is fighting the seat hard and next week a string of MPs will be helping with the effort. They include Nick de Bois, Angie Bray, Maria Miller, Nicky Morgan, Margot James, Andrea Leadsom, Karen Bradley and Jackie Doyle-Price.

The whole constituency has been covered twice with a newspaper and survey and there's much more literature to come. Newspapers are tailored to different parts of the seat and here's a PDF of one of them.

The newspapers give a good indication of the kind of message that Con HQ is experimenting with. Crime and welfare feature prominently as issues.

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