Actor Hugh Grant to join East Devon Independent for canvassing in Sidmouth

Hugh Grant has backed the Independent Parliamentary Candidate for East Devon Claire Wright and will join her on the campaign trail on Monday morning (December 9).

The actor is encouraging people to vote tactically at the polls next Thursday to stop a Conservative majority and has been out campaigning alongside Labour and Liberal Democrat hopefuls.

He is supporting Wright, whose 21,000 votes at the 2017 general election make her the only candidate with any realistic chance of taking the seat from the Conservatives.

It is the seventh constituency the actor has targeted during the election campaign.

Hugh will go door knocking with Wright's canvassing team. He will rally canvassers and supporters at Sidmouth seafront around 11.15am.