Former Education Secretary, Ed Balls, will be in Gillingham tonight meeting the party faithful in a bid to get himself elected leader of the Labour Party.

He is the latest of the contenders to visit the constituency taken from his former Parliamentary Private Secretary, Paul Clark, earlier this year.

Party faithful from across Kent will be at the gathering - the latest stop on a whistlestop dash around the country.

This afternoon he is in Essex. He will race from Basildon to get to the Mid Kent College event.