James Cracknell, right, with Chris Skidmore MP and Richard Hattersley, Asda’s community champion
The Olympic gold medallist and explorer James Cracknell, who is standing as a South West MEP for the Conservatives this month, surprised shoppers when he took his campaign trail to Asda in Longwell Green today.
Accompanying him was Kingswood Tory MP Chris Skidmore. Some people were keen to talk politics while others wanted their pictures taken with the rower, who has two Olympic gold medals and six World Championship titles.
Mr Cracknell, who says he has always been a Conservative supporters, is one of six candidates in the party’s South West team.
The European Elections are on 22nd May. Voters will go to the polls in Britain to choose 73 MEPs in 11 multi-member regional constituencies. Each region has a different number of MEPs based on its population and there are six in the South West.
MEPs are elected by proportional representation in order as listed by their party. Mr Cracknell is third on the Conservatives’ list, behind sitting MEPS Ashley Fox and Julie Girling.
