THE GENERAL ELECTION “A little over forty years ago in a small village in Oxfordshire, I signed up to be a member of the Conservative Party.

“In 2010, our economy faced a crisis.    We were borrowing more than at any time in our peace time history.

On increasing the threshold where graduates pay back their student loan: “This will save many lower and middle earning graduates £1,000s … Every single graduates earning over £21,000 a year will pay less.

Thank-you conference.   It’s great to be here in Manchester. Or as I call it, the Southern powerhouse.   I want to talk to you about the general election. In fact, I want to talk to you about two of them.   The first one - two years ago.   And for us in Scotland, the same old story.

It’s good to be reminded that this is a Government with a purpose and a mission. To bring to all British people the Conservative principles of fairness, opportunity, pride in our country and openness to the world.   My role in this crusade is to make sure it happens.

Good afternoon conference,   If a week in politics is a long time, then a year can seem like a lifetime.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are just fifteen hundred yards away from the site of the worst terrorist atrocity seen in this country since 7/7. An attack that was aimed at children. But, the next day in Albert Square, I saw something that makes me so very proud to be British.

Scott Mann has said he is "delighted" to have been re-selected as the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for North Cornwall in June's General Election.

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Scott Mann and 50 other MPs call for fuel duty cut and new watchdog to police pricing at the pump