I HAVE just returned from holiday to find two items delivered to me by the Conservatives.

The first one is a glossy 16-page pamphlet from the Conservative Government urging me to vote to stay in the European Union in the referendum on June 23.

The second is from Bolton West Conservative Association implying that I should vote to come out of the Union because: “whilst we are still members of the EU it is impossible to effectively control migration”.

While I accept that all the major parties are giving individual members the right to campaign on either side of this, debate I find it staggering that an official body of the Conservative Party is campaigning against its own government on the most important issue which will be decided in the life of the current Parliament.

Cllr Guy Harkin

Crompton Ward