Moira Macdonald, Labour candidate for Central Devon, of Lower BArton Road, Exeter, writes:
Anyone who didn't watch the BBC 1 South West Politics Show on Sunday 11th April won't know that not one single Conservative Candidate apparently was prepared to represent their Party alongside the Labour and Liberal Democrat candidates.
Yet it was the key Conservative issue of repealing the Hunting Act which was the topic of discussion. The idea of bringing back the cruelty of hounds killing foxes and hares for sport is too much for most voters to stomach. The total Tory failure to pitch up and stick up for their Party's cruel proposal shows the Conservative Candidates know what a vote-loser their Party's Policy is.
I've already put in loads of doorstep canvassing this election. Occasionally a voter tells me they're thinking of voting Tory. Yet the minute I ask whether they know of the Conservative vow to hold a free vote on repealing the Hunting Act they are horrified.
Older voters can remember how dreadfully this country suffered under the last Conservative rule. Younger voters don't have that Tory-deterrent. But those young voters who find out about the Hunting Act repeal vote proposal are disgusted by it.
Labour's consistent progress towards a fairer society has changed the way we all think. Britain is a better country today than ever it was under the Tories. No-one now wants to go back to the less equal, less tolerant, more cruel days of the past.