A borough councillor hopes to become an MP, after being adopted as a Prospective Parliamentary Candidate.

Coun Jas Parmar (Con, Kempston South) has been selected by the Tories to fight for election in the West Midlands.

He is one of three candidates who will jointly campaign for the seats of Warley, West Bromwich East and West Bromwich West. The trio will then be allocated to a specific seat in the next few months.

Coun Parmar said: "All three candidates are first-timers, but we will be working together and it will be a good way of getting a baptism. Rather than fighting on your own, we will all be fighting for each other.

"It is a challenge, as all three seats are held by Labour with majorities of more than 10,000. But in politics you never know. Labour won many seats that nobody expected them to get in 1997, and with the unpopularity of this Government we could do something similar."

Coun Parmar, a postmaster from Kempston, was elected to the council in 2006 when he defeated the Labour group leader and Deputy Mayor Shan Hunt.

"Anything is possible in politics. Nobody expected me to win in Kempston two years ago.

"You simply have to work hard, be determined, and the rest is up to the electorate."

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