CNJ follows the parties as they try and convince you they are worth your vote in the election

LIBERAL Democrat hope Ed Fordham has demanded health chiefs intervene to help stranded patients after it emerged another doctor’s surgery is to close in West Hampstead.
Mr Fordham has made surgery closures one of his chief concerns ahead of his vote battle with Labour’s Hampstead and Highgate MP Glenda Jackson next month.
He cried foul when a surgery in the north end of Finchley Road closed earlier this year – and he has reacted with similar dismay to news that the Compayne Gardens Surgery is to re-locate to new premises in Swiss Cottage later this year.
Mr Fordham said: “The surgery is moving out of West Hampstead – the second surgery we will have lost in a year. What local people want is local facilities.”
The transfer was only discovered after developers asked council planning officials for a permission to change the use of the surgery to a new residential block. Mr Fordham said patients should have been consulted before the switch was agreed.
He said: “I am asking the PCT to consult – they promised they would do that last time they closed a local surgery.”
Mr Fordham was officially adopted as the Lib Dem challenger to Ms Jackson at a party rally in the Ye Old Swiss Cottage pub in Swiss Cottage on Sunday.
Supporters hit out at suggestions that the party did not have enough manpower to unseat Ms Jackson after campaigners concentrated on target seats in Brent and Islington.
Mr Fordham added: “Labour voters are leaving their own party and I believe we are witnessing the collapse of the Conservative Party – they are a dying force. I don’t think we could hope for better times going into an election. This is no longer a safe seat. We have worked round the clock meeting people and distributed over 250,000 leaflets. Hampstead and Highgate is in our sights. We are fighting this campaign to win.”
And in a sideswipe at the Camden Labour party’s attempts to convince disaffected supporters to stick with the party Mr Fordham added: “Glenda Jackson is saying vote for me not for Tony Blair. All I can say is that if you vote for a Labour MP you will get a Labour government.”