Rishi Sunak explains why the Nuneaton seat is ‘critical’ during the trip to the cricket club

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak admitted that keeping the Nuneaton seat was “critical” for the Conservative party. After apparently driving around town just a few weeks ago, he brought the Tory bus to Nuneaton Cricket Club earlier this afternoon – and he didn’t want to leave.

He joined several sessions at the club’s ground off Weddington Road, including a drill session with the under-ten and under-11 squad. She then faced balls being bowled by the club’s women’s team – and looked at home in the nets.

So much so that one of the members gathered at the club called out “Are you available on Saturday? before telling the crowd: “This is the most relaxing part of my day so far.”

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Time was passing and he was urged to go on, but he said, “One more? Only one?” Excited young members of the cricket club rushed to snap a selfie with the Prime Minister before he stopped to chat with six-year-olds Nelly Gore and Bella Whitehouse.

Pupils at Milby Primary School spoke excitedly to the man who hopes to continue leading the country after Thursday’s (July 4) general election. This was very heartwarming for one of their parents, who said: “It was so nice of him to take the time to talk to them.

“He shouldn’t have done that.”

His trip to the club reminded him of the “salad days” of his youth playing cricket, which he told CoventryLive he doesn’t have much time for these days. However, there was a serious side to the trip.

He knows the seat is a huge target for Labour, with leader Keir Starmer visiting a school in Ansley just weeks ago and Labor deputy leader Angela Rayner saying winning the Nuneaton seat would be a “symbolic moment”. for the party when she called at Ambleside Sports Club on Labour’s battle bus.

CoventryLive asked the country’s leader how key the city is to him and why he deliberately planned to call in the city just days before people go to the polls.

“Marcus (Jones, the Tory candidate) is a dear friend of mine, so I was definitely going to support him,” he said.

“I appreciate and absolutely understand that people have frustrations, with me, with the party, it’s been a tough couple of years for everyone with Covid and Ukraine, and of course I haven’t got it all right and I haven’t made as much progress in every area as we would have liked

“But what I would say to people is that Thursday is not a by-election, it’s a really important election about the future of our country and what that means for you and your family. If you want your taxes cut, if you want your pension protected, and if you want our borders to be secure and migration controlled, and if you don’t want anyone concrete over your precious green spaces, then you need to vote Tory and You vote for Marcus.”

He added: “Marcus, as everyone knows, brings his local community down, so whatever frustration you might have with the national image anyway, in Marcus you have someone who has secured investment worth 50 millions of pounds in regeneration, whether it’s the cinema or the leisure centre, it’s ensured that the hospital not only has a new community diagnostic centre, which is fantastic, but it’s also had two new wards and an operating theater .”

He added: “Of course it’s essential that we keep Nuneaton, it’s essential for the people of Nuneaton to have an MP like Marcus to represent them because he has a track record of delivering for the people here, but it’s and someone who shares people’s opinion. the values.

“Like me, Marcus and I believe in a country and society where if you work hard, you should keep more money.”

As quickly as some of the bowlers bowled him, the Prime Minister’s visit was soon over, but he will have one eye back on the city early on Friday morning (July 5) to see if the city will hit him for a six. .. or in leading his party home to success.

Candidates for Nuneaton Parliament are Jodie Gosling – Labor Party. John Homer – Labor Party, Rob Howard – Reform Britain, Marcus Jones – Conservative Party, Keith Kondakor – Green Party and Joy Salaja – Liberal Democrats.

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