Out and about in West Putney

Today, Sunday, instead of running the marathon ( a difficult choice to make!) I continued my own marathon of contacting as many Putney Labour members as possible before the hustings on 10th June.

This time most of my time was spent in West Putney ward - the area roughly bordered by Upper Richmond Road, Roehampton Lane, Putney Heath and Putney Hill.

And I was delighted to recruit my first new member to the Labour Party of the campaign while I was calling on her partner, an existing Labour member. It just goes to show that it really isn't that hard to get people to join Labour: all it needs is for us to actually ask them, personally.

There are dozens - possibly hundreds - of people exactly like this throughout the constituency who are Labour through and through but who have just never thought - or never been asked - to join Labour.

If I'm selected on 10th June one of the things I pledge to do is ask, ask and ask again until we have an even more vibrant, active and representative group of members in Putney, Roehampton and Southfields.