Big guns on hunt for votes in Mid Wales
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg were on the campaign trail in Mid Wales today.
Tory Mr Hunt was supporting Montgomeryshire candidate Glyn Davies at the Monty Club in Newtown, where he was set to discuss cross-border health issues with local campaigners.
Lib Dem leader Mr Clegg was on his second visit of the month to the region, visiting Llanidloes War Memorial Hospital to lend his support to candidate Jane Dodds.
Only two weeks ago Mr Clegg visited the Ponthafren Association, a mental health charity in Newtown, where he pledged £450 million would go directly to Wales.
Mr Davies, who has been MP for the region for the past five years, said: "It will be a great pleasure to welcome Mr Hunt to Newtown.
"He will be meeting with campaigners to discuss worries over cross border healthcare."
In one of the most unexpected results of the 2010 election, Lib Dem Lembit Opik lost his seat to Glyn Davies with a 13.2 per cent swing from Lib Dem to Conservative.
Mr Opik had enjoyed a majority of 7,173 after winning the seat for the second time in 2005, but found himself losing out by 1,184 votes to his Tory opponent.
Apart from this and a Conservative victory in the 1979 general election, Montgomeryshire has elected Liberal or Liberal-affiliated candidates since 1880.
